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.

An old man lives alone in a rusting house trailer. His home is about to become a golf course. A rising television reporter wants to cover a story about how new golf courses are enabling economic recovery. She finds something quite unexpected when the two meet.

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.

Six short stories about writing and writers from Dwayne Phillips. This anthology includes: Will Write for Food, Predator and Prey, The Patron of the Arts, The Old Book, Too Much Too Much Not Enough, and Two Walls and a Roof.

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.

Bob Broussard has returned to southwest Louisiana a few years afternoon Hurricane Rita. Something is wrong - the wrong people are working in the wrong businesses serving the wrong customers. Bob searches for answers and finds that the hurricane has changed everything forever, including the home where Bob grew up.

A fundamental task of ours is to test or experiment with our equipment...so began a report I wrote. We were struggling to build systems. Analysis showed that our basic problem was how we tested systems and reported the results. This booklet records time-honored fundamentals of testing and reporting on tests.

I stopped going to work. My walks in the woods wouldn't let me. I couldn't bring myself to tell anyone why. How could I tell of the bullets that I had shot into the eye sockets of those people who weren't really people anymore wandering about at the edge of the woods?

A writer has his first novel published, but $10 a month won't pay the bills. An uncle has an idea for an new strategy.

A boy doesn't like his grandfather. That isn't the way it is supposed to be as a boy is supposed to cherish his grandfather. Sometimes it takes a little time.

In the future, all motor vehicles drive themselves. You summon one, it comes to you, and you ride. Yawn. A few people want to have some fun. The people administering the system learn that they system worked to well to do anything.

The old man walks from his porch to his mailbox every afternoon. He grabs the junk mail, reads the newspaper, and watches the future of mankind pass by in a crowded school bus.