Famed psychotherapist Carl Jung said "In all chaos there is cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." We seek stability but life gives us surprises. Murray Dunlap's was a car wreck on June 7, 2008 that put him in a coma for three months. Then he lived out of a wheelchair for six and a walker for six more. The traumatic brain injury made a mockery of his memory but the challenge of starting over was made manageable by his writing and the strength of friends. Fires and Other Stories is Dunlap's collection of stories, both fiction and non-fiction, about life's unexpected turns. And it is Dunlap's uncanny sense of connection that brings those twists into focus and show that disorder's gifts, the discovery of that secret "cosmos," can turn despair into happiness.