A powerful and poignant collection of memorable stories from an award-winning storyteller, Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination is charming, action-packed, frightening, and thoughtful by turn. In these nine stories of determination, seemingly ordinary people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances as they confront their fears and embrace their challenges on a near-future Earth or an alternate-history past or even on a far distant alien world.

1. Rick Wilber, Introduction
2. Stephen King and Stewart O‘Nan, “A Face in the Crowd”
3. Karen Joy Fowler, “The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man”
4. T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Hector Quesadilla Story”
5. Kim Stanley Robinson, “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars”
6. Jack Kerouac, “Ronnie on the Mound”
7. Wilbur Schramm, “My Kingdom for Jones”
8. Louise Marley, “Diamond Girls”
9. Valerie Sayers, “How to Read a Man”
10. Gardner Dozois, “The Hanging Curve”
11. John Kessel, “The Franchise”