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.

On January 8, 1935, Vernon and Gladys Presley became the parents of twin boys. They named the first Jesse and the second Elvis. That isn't true, but here is one version of what might have happened.

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.

The key witness to a triple murder sits on a curb with filth running under his feet. He will testify only if a police detective agrees to enter the sewer and help someone.

A plague has hit the world. The healthy flee the cities to try to survive in the countryside. The old and dying are doomed to stay behind.

They didn't seek it; it feel to them. The introverts ruled the world. They didn't see it that way. They saw themselves as the ones to rebuild civilization. As all reigns, it too came to an end one day.

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 couple is too rich to obtain college education grants for their children, but too poor to pay tuition. They find a solution that skirts around legal and moral bounds.

Sports, created after the American Civil War as an outlet for young men, was honorable. One day, a "winner" shouted at "losers." The sports race was on. So was the downward path.

Someone left the gate open and Tommy ran out from a small Louisiana town into the world of the professional gunman. I witnessed his life from a distance until he came home one Thanksgiving.

Mike Hatfield was innocent of all wrongdoing. The McCoys didn't care. They claimed he hacked the sensors and the justice system. The Judge advised him to seek safety in a City of Refuge.

Two slackers wandering the woods of Louisiana and Mississippi six months after the Zombie discover an unbelievable way to make the undead really "dead dead." They rescue four young women and become the heroes of the apocalypse.