Dwayne Phillips: 116 books

An unemployed man laments the closing of the local public library. He decides to do something about it.

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.

Widowed ten years earlier, a man decides to have "a date." Planning for the worst, he uses a McDonalds in a Wal-Mart as a meeting place. He doesn't want to look old, so he must find something to do with his reading glasses before she arrives.

Jerry broke into computer systems. He had been doing this since the third grade. This time was different. This time Jerry was going walk into a corporate building and walk out with data in his hands. Would it work?

Mike Knapp would gaze at the top of the flag pole that stood outside his 4th floor office. It didn't look far. Maybe he could leap out the window and grab it. That was just a daydream until one morning when an accident in the parking garage set off a disastrous chain of events.

Two scientists descend below the Nevada Desert to examine an alien spaceship. They discover unbelievable things, and the aliens are a little weird, too.

Jim works hard. One day he awakens to find that he is neglecting his wife and living only for work. Maybe if he only thinks about the essentials...

Stephen sat on the curb of the main street of a small town off the Interstate. He lost his job and was dumped by his girlfriend. As he scratched the pavement with a Bic pen, two vehicles sped towards him at 2 a.m.

A fundamental task of ours is to test or experiment with our equipment...so began a report I wrote. We were struggling to build systems. Analysis showed that our basic problem was how we tested systems and reported the results. This booklet records time-honored fundamentals of testing and reporting on tests.

Toby fell for it again. His friend tricked him into coming to a bon fire. Now he is stuck standing next to a fire with no hot dogs and a girl wearing a sweat shirt. The evening, however, brings something unexpected.

Sherri is taking her boyfriend Todd home to the farm to visit her parents. Todd is looking forward to a change of pace and some relaxation. He learns that Sherri's family has something else in mind.

Things were going well on the job site - except for the generator building. The mechanic had not spoken a word to anyone in two weeks. It was eccentric to say the least. The managers didn't know what to do until a kid showed up on the job site.

Three days of hiccups is no fun. Dave tries every remedy on the Internet, but finds a cure from an unlikely source.

Del found himself dazed and confused, lying on the floor of a cave somewhere in the desert. Two men in Three Stooges costumes were talking in gibberish and claiming to be from Romania or maybe another planet. They promised to take him to their planet through a looking glass.