In Your Own Words. Extraordinary Tales from Ordinary Life

From the popular column in the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, comes the best 100 true stories of queer coincidence and quirks of fate. Since November 2003 readers of the magazine have been sending in their own accounts, in no more than 600 words.
A hundred true stories of remarkable coincidence and quirks of fate.
Stories are the stuff of life, and life--very often--is the stuff of stories. For every made-up tale, there is a true one at least as remarkable: a strange coincidence, an unexpected encounter, a stroke of luck or misfortune, an event so hilarious--or heartbreaking--that it is impossible to forget. For several years, readers of London's SUNDAY TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE have been submitting their own brief accounts of the times in their lives when the ordinary has turned extraordinary, when something has happened to transform the humdrum into narrative gold. Some of the writing is funny, some sad, some almost too good, or strange, to be true. The perfect reminder that life is not just for the living, but for the telling, too.