I love story-telling and I travel often given my profession. Hung up in airport layovers for one reason or another, these two short stories came to mind this year: A Raindrop Drops...And Raindrops, Like Bullets, Hurt! It takes readers through a series of emotions from anticipatory joy to pessimistic doubt. Droplet, its main character, is a developing anthropomorphic raindrop determined, destined to make an everlasting impression upon release from Mother Cloud. In the world below is Mahdi, a toddler in war torn Qatar; who experiences his first storm in the drought-stricken region. The ensuing bedlam is bittersweet...The second story: "Roommates" is about two unlikely roommates coming together for practical reasons graduating Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. It provides an in depth look into these Millennial go-getters' lives: dating and family drama; Velcro, on-off again relationships... making it as new grads in Charleston, South Carolina's swank downtown will require discipline, connections, introspection and growth. Question: having little in common going into this arrangement, will more result coming out?