A elderly man drags himself into a pharmacy late at night. The only employee present is a young man. A power failure locks them in the store. Then someone else enters unannounced.

"Everyone who goes in that room is a liar." That had to be a myth. There cannot be anything special about a silly little room. That's what I thought until I spent a couple of minutes in the room.

Joseph writes novels, and they have all been rejected so far. He pays his rent by writing junk magazine articles. Food? That comes from people who don't write as well.

It was Roy Taylor's first visit to New York City. The weather was great and the meetings had gone well. All that was left to a good visit was a cab ride to the motel, a good night's sleep, and a short flight home in the morning. What could go wrong?

Ten-year-old Todd is going with his dad while his dad goes hunting. It is the longest, hardest, and most memorable day of his life.

David is on break from his dead-end job at the Dollar Store. A scruffy old man approaches him claiming to be his uncle who hasn't eaten in two days. David gives the old man his last $2. Something comes back in return later.

An elderly widower finds a dog on his walk in the woods. The two become companions as the man cares for the dog and the dog watches the man.

Jerry broke into computer systems. He had been doing this since the third grade. This time was different. This time Jerry was going walk into a corporate building and walk out with data in his hands. Would it work?

Tony felt for the homeless people he saw outside the window of his Washington D.C. office. He wanted to help feed them and figured that would be easy. It wasn't as easy as he thought.

Nelson stumbles into a tiny restaurant somewhere in Alabama. The place is a treasure trove of chats with interesting people. Nelson goes out of his way two months later to revisit the place, but things have changed.

Jacob sits stunned in the woods next to his house. A schoolteacher turned guerrilla warfare recruiter explains to him that he just shot dead ten soldiers of an invading army. Jacob is now a hero, but he has also become something else, something he despises - a killer.

Two scientists descend below the Nevada Desert to examine an alien spaceship. They discover unbelievable things, and the aliens are a little weird, too.