Nine stories about objectives sought and won or lost and those regained by main force, deception, seduction, overweening desire, a taste for the good and/or easy life, slipped beneath a coat on the way out the door, or acquired of simple avarice, drive, anything risked on a final, sweaty throw, get-up-and-go, winning attitude and a fine smile, not to be confused with lost property or that abandoned in flight, staid inheritance, the product of simple good fortune. Slightly more than a handful of tales told out-of-pocket, a weather eye to the wind.