A man once claimed he could tell the temperature just by licking lamp posts. He was right every time, but only in towns without clocks.

There’s a vending machine off Highway 54 that doesn’t take money. You press B7, and three days later, something disappears from your garage. In a retirement home in Helsinki, one woman refuses to speak unless someone mentions the moon. She knows 43 ways to describe it, none of which use the word “circle.”

A child was born with a birthmark shaped exactly like the state of Vermont. It changed to Nebraska on his 13th birthday. No one said anything. Some scientists believe these are unrelated events. Others aren’t so sure. At what point does coincidence require a theory? And how many unmeasured forces shape the part of your mind that thinks it’s measuring?