The Impossible Coincidences Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.
I moved to a new city for work and interviewed at a mid-sized firm for a role I really wanted. The hiring manager who came out to get me was…
351 Upvote · 93% of readers believe this story
For our honeymoon, ten years ago, my wife and I rented a tiny cabin in the woods, far from anything, booked through a local owner who has lo…
328 Upvote · 93% of readers believe this story
After my father died I got obsessed with one small mystery he left behind. He never told anyone exactly where he was born. He came to this c…
271 Upvote · 89% of readers believe this story
My grandfather annotated books the way other men smoked: constantly, unapologetically, in a cramped forward-leaning hand with Greek letters …
149 Upvote · 72% of readers believe this story
The airport run was at four in the morning, and the driver was one of the talkative ones, for which — as it turned out — I will be grateful …
125 Upvote · 64% of readers believe this story
The trip was last-minute — a friend's wedding in Osaka, cheap flights into Tokyo, one improvised night in a capsule hotel near Ueno station …
120 Upvote · 72% of readers believe this story
The garage had had my car for nine days, my patience for six of them. On the tenth morning I rehearsed a speech, dialled from a scrap of pap…
96 Upvote · 59% of readers believe this story
My mother lost her wedding band in the summer of 2003. We knew it was the garden — she gardened bare-handed, against all advice — and the wh…
91 Upvote · 72% of readers believe this story
My rescue greyhound came named Stanhoe — the shelter's best guess at the word on his collar tag, half worn away. It is nobody's dog name; it…
72 Upvote · 99% of readers believe this story
My father was not a writer. In seventy-six years he produced, as far as anyone knows, one piece of correspondence: a postcard from a fishing…
67 Upvote · 94% of readers believe this story
The rejection arrived at 9:04, while I was literally in the building's lobby for the final interview. 'The position has been filled internal…
43 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story
Both of us were rebooked. Hold that detail: neither Martin Kovac was supposed to be on that plane. My original flight was cancelled for a cr…
38 Upvote · 99% of readers believe this story
I collect old frames; the pictures inside are usually landfill, but the woodwork can be lovely. At a flea market in a town I had never visit…
14 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story
