After completing his first novel, Prodigies - A Warring Species and the Human Heart, Dr. Tim Dosemagen decided to move toward the personal, producing in The Impossible a very eclectic and most unusual collection of delightful short stories and essays. The Impossible combines humor with irony, weaving a lifetime of observations into an easy to read digest of very intimate observations, written in Dosemagen's uniquely direct style, with a simplicity of description, an honesty of depiction, and a mastery of capturing the inequalities of life and unexplainable unfolding of the world's events. In reading these stories and essays, the reader will be alternately surprised, uplifted, shocked, chagrined, amused, and educated. One is left with a lingering appreciation at these brief portraits into so many hidden aspects of our a life, and the desire to re-read these stories and essays is happily quenched. In The Impossible, Dosemagen casts a warm spotlight on the unlikeliest events of our lives, the roles each of us play in creating our futures, and the wonderful transformations yielded by the passage of time. Ride the waves, enjoy the good yarns, take pleasure in the sarcasm of the screeds, the wisdom of the observations, and celebrate Dosemagen's continuation of Mark Twain's 'A Pen Warmed Up In Hell' tradition.