Two 6th-grade boys play a game of basketball. The game is a terrible mismatch. The victor is unable to come to terms with the outcome for 40 years.

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.

"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.

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.

Two bored engineering students from Mississippi take a year from college to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. They never make it. A chance meeting with a former student and a tall, slim Saudi man changes their plans.

Mike Knapp would gaze at the top of the flag pole that stood outside his 4th floor office. It didn't look far. Maybe he could leap out the window and grab it. That was just a daydream until one morning when an accident in the parking garage set off a disastrous chain of events.

An old Soviet satellite is found in a pasture in Louisiana. No one knows why. This is only the beginning.

A student goes to The Human Test Laboratory for a part-time job. Maybe he will watch TV or use a couple of new products. He learns that he can make much more money by participating in a 72-hour test. He agrees, but has no idea what will happen for the next 72 hours.

People on the streets are acting crazy. Several observers and analysts at a think tank are tasked with discovering why and finding a solution. Can they do so before they too are infected with this craziness?

Thomas and Karen were winter house sitters at 12,000 feet in the Montana mountains. Spring arrived, but not in the normal fashion. They found a stranger in the barn who was too sick to explain himself. Thomas heads down the mountain to find a deserted ranch and town except for one man dragging himself across a street.

Widowed ten years earlier, a man decides to have "a date." Planning for the worst, he uses a McDonalds in a Wal-Mart as a meeting place. He doesn't want to look old, so he must find something to do with his reading glasses before she arrives.