Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

A story of a modest ordinary crook trying his best to turn his boring life into an affordable extraordinary adventure.

A broken-down actor with a weakness for booze demands that a playwright give him a part. When the old colleague refuses him, the actor resorts to blackmail

Halloran plays a practical joke on a man named Johnny. He shows him a fake newspaper with a headline reading "World to End Tonight --- 11:45 P.M." Johnny believes the headline and decides to live it up. He gets into trouble and shoots someone. A few minutes before 11:45 he sees the real headline and realizes that he has been tricked. Johnny finds Halloran and shoots him. The reporter dies at 11:45.