The Dowser
Samantha Thoms is looking for love. The bar circuit has proven a waste of time and enough to make her scream. Even a personal ad in one of those trashy meat mags got absolutely no response. Out of options Samantha hires a dowser who specializes in finding good men. Satisfaction guaranteed or money cheerfully refunded. Samantha is about to learn it is not her satisfaction that is guaranteed; it’s the dowser’s.

While Others Dream
For thirty-nine years Dan Roberts has been the night watchman. Tonight he celebrates his ten thousand shift. Late into this memorable shift he is surprised by an intruder. Dan pulls his gun and holds the intruder at bay while he tries to call the police. The stranger has a better idea. He offers Dan the ability to enter a special kind of sleep. The stranger intrigues Dan with tales of how he can make big bucks while others dream. Dan is itching to jump at this chance regardless of the cost.

The Theory Of Invisibility
Invisibility is science fiction trash – or so Archibald Mayhew was taught during those years he spent chasing his Ph.D. in chemistry. Still, each night he climbs the stairs to his attic lab to tinker with his latest invention – a liquid solution meant render the subject invisible. Years of painstaking planning and formula modifications has come down to this. The moment of truth. He pours the contents of one vial on to a wooden block. It vanishes. He empties a flask’s contents over the spot here the block had been and it reappears. The next day, Mayhew bears the derision of his associates when he informs them of his feats. Rejected and dejected, he returns to the attic to try the solutions again, this time on a caged rabbit. Again it disappears with the vial and then reappears with the flask. The next day an even more excited Mayhew tells his colleagues. They still mock and taunt him. Mayhew has anticipated this reaction. From his pockets he pulls out two vials and lays them on a table. He states that he, himself, will be his next subject. He takes one vial and drinks from it. But he doesn’t disappear. Instead, he stands and watches in helpless fascination as the room and all it’s contents disappear from view. It would appear that Archibald Mayhew has truly unlocked the secret of invisibility but has lost the key to the door leading out.

The Camera Never Lies
Gus Wilson is a news cameraman at a small television station. Over the years he’s seen a lot of changes. He began in the time of black and white newsreels and lived to record images on electronic memory chips. Now, each day seems to bring a new technological change. Recently he was given the task of field testing a new camera and Gus found it to be slightly ahead of its time. You see, after covering a routine bridge opening, he played back the recording and found something odd. Instead of the ribbon cutting he recorded a jumper leaping from the bridge. In another assignment he opened a door to the past, and in another, a door to a parallel world. The News Director was livid. Gus was told to stop goofing around. “It’s the camera.” he pleaded. In it went for maintenance. Well, there was something wrong after all. The boys found a couple of crossed wires. As the camera was returned to service, a news alert came in that a boy had jumped to his death from the top of that new bridge.

Tennis Anyone?
Jeffrey Squires and MacDonald Charles meet every Wednesday in the locker room of the Esquire Tennis Club. Jeffrey is living in the past while Mac is obsessed with the future. They find common though, when they “talk the stock market.” Jeffrey tells of the past, mentioning the chances he took with wild speculations, and the money he’d made. Jeffrey wonders, good naturedly, if Mac took a chance or two on these speculations as well. Apparently, MacDonald has not. You see, he’s working backward in time and is banking on Jeffrey’s reports of his returns.

So You Think You’re Tough
The year is 1925. Coolidge is in; Prohibition is in; Trotsky is out; the Mars Brothers have opened on Broadway; the Scopes Monkey Trial has mercifully ended; Babe Ruth is The Sultan of Swat; and Buster and Jocko are the Terrors of Tompkins Avenue. It’s nothing for these two to spend the day prowling the sidewalks, looking for marks for their little pranks and petty crimes. Whether it’s thieving at the local fruit stand, taunting the local school girls or sending the police and fire departments on wild goose chases, they always hang tough. One day they decide to mug an old man for his pocket change and his heart gives out during the mugging. As the police come onto the scene the scram for the railway yard where they hide inside an open boxcar. The boxcar moves and the door slams shut and locks. Trapped inside their toughness is eroded by their fear of the unknown. Their jocularity is a shallow false bravado. The train stops. The boxcar door unlocks and Buster and Jocko recover their tough guy images. As the door slides open, a Nazi storm trooper uses his rifle to move them forward into a concentration camp.

Look What I Found
With only a Masters of Science, and an undergraduate degree from a backwater university, it is hard to be credible in research fields. It’s even harder when every paper you’ve put forward has been disputed. It is definitely impossible when you claim a solid, proven fact is wrong, like the sun is about to die. Cameron Pederson is finding out just how hard it is. The only problem is that this time he’s right.

The Lamplighter
A young, dull-witted boy breaks into a big house to steal what he can. He is about to sneak away with what appears to be an expensive book when he unwittingly runs into the owner. A professor Buchinsky. The boy tries to threaten the professor, but instead of pleading in fear, the professor counters by saying, “These books are full of knowledge, but are useless unless accompanied by understanding. If you destroy one book, you destroy a world, a view of reality and decrease our understanding. If you read a book, you create a world and help enrich your understanding. But, until you have read others you have not enriched your understanding. When you understand, you will no longer be alienated. You will know the joy of touching another’s mind.” Confused, the boy runs with his prize into the night. Back in his hideaway, the boy begins to explore his ill gotten gain. Unfortunately, he begins to read it. Fascinated, he decides that he wants more. He begins hanging out in libraries. A librarian notices that the boy seems to spend a lot of time looking through books but never takes one home. Hen the librarian asks why he says, “He doesn’t know.” The librarian teaches him to use a library card. Armed with his new card the boy boldly displays his new found treasures. Checking out his first book selections, the librarian asks, “Will that be all Mister Langdon?”

A Flip Of The Coin
A time has come when the computer is tamper proof and incapable of error. So foolproof are the souls of these machines that they replace their conventional counterparts in every conceivable way. The police force has long since seen the last of the teletype, wirephoto and even the two-way radio. No one even remembers using mug shot books and fingerprint file cards. During the investigation of a murder suspect the New Orleans Police Department sends a photo and fingerprints to Quebec City, via the network. En route the system burps and cross-circuits data banks, altering the information. Angie Taggart is now a guilty woman and her innocence will be difficult to prove, because the courts use the same computer network, now filled with misinformation.

The Windriders
Somewhere in a remote corner of the world, as yet undiscovered by modem man, two tribes vie for control of their world. Both live in primitive surroundings: One in the forest, the other in the caves. The struggle for power has continued for longer than the elders can remember. Each tribe is looking for some key to tip the scales in its favour. One day a cave youth, on his test of manhood sees a “windrider” in the valley. His curiosity piques when he sees this legendary sight land by the river. He journeys to it for closer inspection, knowing that to bring a windrider home would be the greatest proof of his manhood. No one has ever caught a windrider. No one from the forest, no one from the caves. Apparently, no one had ever anticipated the immensity of their size either. Cautiously he pulls a piece from its lifeless unmoving body and returns to the caves. Inside he shows off his prize to the elders, but they are dealing with more important matters: the forest dwellers are attacking. The elders wish they had more strength for a counterattack. As they leave, we see the prize the young boy brought to the cave is a canister with U.S. Army markings and a radioactive warning sticker on the side.

Translations
Anton Keyes is an unassuming bookworm who earns his living as a translator. A speech here, a manuscript there, perhaps the odd document, but never a document as odd as this one. Piers van der Linden, a World War II historian, purchased a lot of old war records from the Berlin Museum. He then hired Anton to translate them. During the translation, Anton discovered one document, written in Arabic and signed by Chamberlain and Hitler, giving to Germany the mineral rights to the Arab oil states. Anton now holds the future of world economics in his hands, and he must make a decision that will impact the world.

Triangulation
After a long job supervising the construction on the “Pearl of Jamaica”, Barbara Shaw, a shipwright, relaxes with a leisurely weekend at sea on her somewhat smaller boat. She dives down into an area of The Bermuda Triangle and finds a luxury liner sunk amidst the soft sand and coral. On several subsequent dives she enters various areas and finds it odd that the ship has no treasures to yield. On her last dive she scrapes the coral from the stern and finds the name of the yet-to-be launched “Pearl of Jamaica”.

I Believe
Drago Obradovich never thought he’d ever get realize his childhood dream of being a doctor when he and his family emigrated when he was just a boy of 5. He worked hard at school and taking jobs to save money and help the family. In medical school he continued the hard work and was rewarded when he graduated fourth in his class. He opened a general practice and began to make his reputation. The press loved him, his patients line up around the block, and his colleagues are envious by Drago’s lack of self-importance. When civil war breaks out back home he immediately packs up his life and travels back to care for the needy. His skills improve and word spreads of his very gifted doctor. One day Bodac Isovic, the leader of the peace movement is ambushed by the rebels and left for dead. His aids, and leaders from both sides call for Dr. Obradovich, for he is their only hope to save their country from more years of horrible warfare. Will he be good enough?

Words Never Said
Matt Winslow is a shy, quiet man who for forty years has lived a normal life. He has always admired and loved his father, but has never found a way to tell him how much he cares. He would like to, but feels he can’t. One day his father has a traffic accident and slips into a coma. Day and night Matt sits by his father’s side. Finding his courage, he holds his father’s hand and expresses his gratitude and tells his dad the depth of his love. His father comes out of the coma, looks at his son and asks, “Who are you?”

Into The Spotlight
He has appeared on thousands of recordings although his name is not a household word. Hank Bollen is a guitarist in Nashville who has played with anybody who is anybody. The money’s good and the work is steady, but Hank’s wife believes he’ll never reach his potential. After months of constant goading Hank agrees to record his own album and be a star. What he is soon to find out is that sometimes it is better to play along than lead the band.

What About My Life?
On an August night in 1975, 9 year old Janet Walters was found dead in the boiler room of her apartment complex. Her throat cut, her body sexual abused. On little more than circumstantial evidence the police arrested 21-year old Karl Wade, a 3rd year medical student who lived the the same building. After a year in jail awaiting trial, it came and went in 4 weeks. The verdict: guilty. The sentence: Life without parole. After serving twenty years, a civil liberties attorney swayed the supreme court to allow a DNA test which proved Karl innocent. Now out of prison he wants the government to give him his life back.