Today's Transcendental Thought

I picked up the From the Borderlands anthology yesterday, mainly for the Bentley Little short story -- I'm starting to wonder these days if he can write something new without "The" in the title -- and the new Stephen King "novella" contained therein, but was pleasantly surprised by the very first story and the only one I've read thus far, Rami Temporalis by Gary Braunbeck. It's good. Damn good even.

Basically, it's a little tale about one of those people who manage to get approached by just about everyone on the face of the planet. The person who gets singled out by the homeless man asking for change, who sits and listens to the sad and depressed woman telling her life story and those of her cats, and more importantly why it happens.