Room" - Marriane is a doctor specializing in geriatrics, she attended a conference but she somehow suffered a head injury. She tries to make sense of what happened but is confused as she finds herself in a strange hotel room... "Ice Dancing" (Telling Stories, Sceptre, 1993) - Set in Maryland a retired successful architect Don and his wife Janet now live in a house designed by him. Then Janet has a fall, and from then she periodically regresses to her childhood. Later she is diagnosed as having hydrocephalus and has an operation from which she recovers. "Negative Equity" - Diver Tom, his Danish artist wife Karen and his 12-year-old daughter Rachel are building a Danish house. But due to negative equity they can no longer raise any money to complete the house. Tom then takes a deep dive in an attempt to escape the pressures. "Bubble and Star" - Eugene Packard had been a successful Canadian plastics manufacturer, and had been married to Leota for 50 years and they lived near Niagara Falls. Leota had booked them onto small island in Hudson Bay but one morning he went out on a boat, it overturned and his body was not found for a week. Leota was now alone and she recalled Eugene despising those who tried to defy the falls, calling them boobies. Leota decided that she would go over the falls herself, using a plastic bubble built by Eugene's company, then she decided that she did not need a bubble. "John-Jin" (BBC Radio 4)- A Chinese baby was left in a woman's toilet in Wetherby, christened John-Jin by the nurses at the hospital. 10-year-old Susan's parents adopted him but he would not grow so he was given growth hormone. Susan loved him but then he was struck down by CJD. "Trade Wind Over Nashville" (Pandora's Stories IV, 1990) - Willa, a waitress lived in a trailer park near Nashville with her lover Vee who was a country songwriter. In Green Hiils Lester was a roofer, as he was quoting for a Baptist church. That evening Vee was meeting impresario Herman Berry to showcase his songs. Then a powerful wind struck the neighbourhood, blowing off many roofs. Lester then realised that this would be his opportunity to thrive. Vee did not return that night, Willa's trailer was still standing but badly damaged. That morning she arrived at the cafe and learned