Can you recognize the turning points in your life when they overtake you? The women and men who populate the short stories in ?Observers? find themselves in situations--some mundane, some extraordinary--that will probably change them forever, though they don't always realize that's what's happening. One character acquires a lonely dog, one begins to recognize the harbingers of an alien encounter, another watches an eclipse on a wild night in New Orleans, and still another unexpectedly finds that she has outgrown an old love; all experiences that probably have deeper consequences than even the stories' conclusions might suggest.