Patrick J. Thompson

Dinky Earnshaw has a special gift. An especially dangerous and lethal gift. A gift that attracts the attention of a mysterious corporation whose intentions may not be what they seem. Now Dinky must decide whether to do nothing and play ignorant, or to come to terms with what he has done...and do something about it. Based on the short story by Stephen King.

Author John Dykstra, who writes under the pen name Rick Hardin, has had too much beer to drink at his mystery writer’s group meeting and desperately needs to find a rest stop on his return from Jacksonville, Florida to Sarasota, Florida. There is only one other car at the rest stop, and he overhears its occupants in the ladies’ bathroom. He hears a woman’s and a man’s voice coming from the bathroom, and the sounds of domestic abuse. Based on the short story "Rest Stop" by Stephen King.

The 1940's: A young cadet drafted to war and a woman drafted to poverty both struggle to find their identities against the hardships and villains of the day in this sentimental tribute to the bygone era of silent film.