Crossroads is a collection of sixty-eight fictional short stories based on the memories of James R. Mahoney. They relate the personal experiences of a member of the generation linked together by the historic spike in the population growth engendered by the end of the world wide military conflict of the twentieth century, the 'baby-boomers'. The stories range from the author's childhood in the 1950's and 60's to matriculation as an adult in the 70's, through middle age in the twenty first century. The stories appear in order of the magnitude of poignancy that each story has had for its author,...