An unforgettable storyteller, Al MacLeese delighted in recounting his escapades in the Navy and during journalism's hard-drinking era, when bosses fired him with astonishing regularity. He counted 47 newsroom jobs in a 15-year stretch, drifting from Miami to San Francisco to Boston. In one forced migration after falling asleep drunk at a Golden Gate Bridge tollgate, he was jailed when he instigated confrontations on a bus and a fracas in the bus station. While being questioned by police, he blurted a confession to a triple ax murder. "Unleashed: A storyteller's odyssey" tells the history of a...

Chasing a mysterious tip about a colorful mayor, Rob Norton is closing in on the biggest story of his newspaper career when he finds himself fighting more than city hall. With the mayor's re-election looming, Norton's story faces nonsensical roadblocks while he deals with dysfunctional newsroom personalities, including his own. Norton continues digging, and yet, a more personal probe, this one by his doctor, grows more significant. Something has gone dramatically wrong. The wheels are coming off his world, and he realizes he is in a race against his own deteriorating body as he veers into...

Jake Hermann is frustrated: He's been out of work for a year, hasn't had a date in eons, and his softball coach doesn't play to win. When an umpire's bad call leads Jake into a relationship with a woman scarred by trauma, he thinks he may have found "the one." Then suddenly, after a single spoken word, the romance is over. His life takes another turn for the worse when Jake's grandmother, an outspoken, earthy woman who rescued him from dysfunctional parents when he was a toddler, suffers a series of mini-strokes. He soon finds himself with a new job - caregiver for someone with dementia. The...