Jim Patterson runs into his old friend Kevin Murray at LAX when his flight to Atlanta is canceled. This story deals with the aftermath of what Kevin tells Jim while they have a few beers together.
A guy and his family's, life is turned upside down, when he plans a little surprise for his wife one day, and he finishes up getting an even bigger surprise himself! How he handles the situation at the time and how his feelings change over the following few years, although he doesn't discuss his feelings directly. Its another one of those, "You don't know what you've got (or what you will miss), until you ain't not got it no more!" stories!
This is a story about rape and domination and love and loss and happiness in the middle of war. People are complex. They do not understand themselves. She does not understand how she could come to love her dominator.
There's a loud voiced stranger in the bar one night and what he he has to say, gets another regular drinker thinking. Just short little tale about something and nothing.
It was a lousy night at work. Even thought it was a slow night I wasn’t even batting 100. Actually I was a lot lower. My first three cases had died on the table. I wasn’t very successful that night.