The Wonderfulist and Three Other Short Stories

Story #1"The Wonderfulist"Away for twelve years, Willie is back on business to the town he grew up in -- and with no desire to reconnect with anything from his past. Still, he makes a nostalgic visit to a once-popular but now abandoned lake pier. There he encounters a strange device that for a nickel forces him to change everything about how he'd remembered that past. Story #2"Jack be Simple"Jack believes he's an ordinary guy, though most people think he's just simple.
But what happens one day in his workshop is anything but simple -- and far from ordinary. Jack encounters a potent, indefinable energy source yet doesn't know that this meeting is but a precursor: He and the whole world is about to witness an epic struggle when a massive creature from space chooses earth to satiate its voracious appetite. Story #3"Head Over Heels"A little comedic sideshow: Wilber's first-- and only -- day at a new job.
Story #4"The Case of the Instant Rewind"[A nod to the hard-boiled detectives created by Dashiel Hemmet and others.]Lieutenant Inspector Frankie Muldoon has a murder case that's got him scratching his head. His suspect, a 3-time loser, has an air-tight alibi while the richest dame in town, who is definitely involved, ain't talkin'. Technology, which Muldoon neither likes nor much understands, figures into the mix.
He cracks the case when he realizes that something about that technology doesn't add up.