Coaster2: Stories

Being tall has its advantages, but when trouble strikes, it's how you handle adversity that matters.

After nearly 27 years, Edie Carver thought she wanted to take a lover. She tells her husband, but his reaction is anything but what she expected. A dark story of a marriage in turmoil.

Ian Dunlop was not a boy to stand by and watch others who were in trouble. But by any standard, his adventures through his youth were anything but ordinary.

It started with the death of my parents, stealing an education, reuniting with my sister, and falling in love with a wonderful young woman. It ended up with me doing something I would never have thought myself capable of.

When your life turns to crap, you start looking for something better. Once in a while, you find it.

Just how does a man cope when he has lost all memory of his past? If and when it's recovered, how does he put the pieces back together again?

Rebecca Breckenridge is a paradox. A loving mother and wife, but quick tempered under stress. When she begins to change for the worse, her husband and children know something is wrong.

Two unhappy people, thrown together by circumstance, find what they've been looking for.

Newly divorced, Val sees his luck and his life turn around in a most unexpected way.

Ten Years in the life of an extraordinary young woman.