CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Letter in the Wallet

   by Arnold Fine

3. In Over His Head

   by Doug Colligan

4. Not a Moment to Spare

   by Kevin Harter

5. Stowaway!

   by Armando Socarras Ramírez, as told to Denis Fodor and John Reddy

6. To Do or Not to Do

   by Mary Roach

7. Class Action

   by Lynn Rosellini

8. Friends for Life

   by Ellen Sherman

9. The Prisoner and the Encyclopedia Editor

   by Daniel A. Gross

10. Killer on Call

    by Max Alexander

11. Grizzly Attack!

    by Peter Michelmore

12. A Five-Year-Old Teaches a Lesson in Grace

    by Leslie Kendall Dye

13. Emergency Whistle on Block Island

    by Floyd Miller

14. The Baby and the Battalion

    by Kenneth Miller

15. An Evening Drive

    by Joe Posnanski

16. One Wing and a Prayer

    by Penny Porter

17. Summer’s Magical Music

    by Allan Sherman

18. When Your Best Fish Story Is about Catching a Goat

    by Rick Bragg

19. Horror in the Heartland

    by Henry Hurt

20. Thank You for Caring So Much

    by Peter DeMarco

21. At the Bottom of the Bay

    by Anita Bartholomew

22. Life on the Funny Farm

    by Laura Cunningham

23. Stopping a Kidnapper

    by Alyssa Jung

24. The Little Boat That Sailed Through Time

    by Arnold Berwick

25. Buried in Mud

    by Nick Heil

26. “I’ve Come to Clean Your Shoes”

    by Madge Harrah

27. Gandalf and the Search for the Lost Boy

    by Christopher W. Davis

28. The Curse of Sigurd the Fingerless

    by Ruth Park

29. The Day We Planted Hope

    by Conrad Kiechel

30. The Over-the-Hill Gang

    by Mark Seal

31. My Mamma’s Letters

    by Octavia Capuzzi Locke

32. The Stranger Who Taught Magic

    by Arthur Gordon

33. Runaway Train

    by William M. Hendryx

34. A Miracle of Mermaids

    by Margo Pfeiff

35. I Captured Adolf Eichmann

    by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein

36. Some Sort of Magic

    by Annette Foglino

37. My Fourteenth Summer

    by W. W. Meade

38. “Please Don’t Leave Me!”

    by James Hutchinson

39. How to Ruin a Joke

    by Andy Simmons

40. Nailed Through the Heart

    by Per Ola and Emily D’Aulaire

41. Raising Alexander

    by Chris Turner

42. On the Line

    by Mitch Lipka

43. “Information Please”

    by Paul Villiard

44. Credits and Acknowledgments

Your True Stories 5, 22, 32, 75, 78, 115, 130, 166, 180, 224, 260, 277, 280, 293, 308

Photos of Lasting Interest 14, 30, 62, 76, 116, 156, 190, 232, 278, 294

Humor Hall of Fame 16, 29, 44, 64, 98, 134, 144, 178, 210, 231, 258, 284