Wallace liked to make up stories. Funny, weird, and unusual stories. Wallace had entertained family, teachers, and friends for years, and now he had begun to write his stories down. He wrote about ordinary people who were visited by aliens or who searched for friends who disappeared without a trace. He wrote about people with power to read the minds of others. His parents' co-workers sent home names of magazines and publishers' addresses for Wallace to contact. He could be the next Stephen King, they said. That's why it just wasn't fair for him to be all alone when it happened.