Button, Button: would you press it?

A stranger offers you a small box with one button. Press it, and two things happen: you receive $50,000, and somewhere in the world, someone you don't know dies. Nobody will ever find out. Would you press it?

That's the whole story of “Button, Button” — and the reason it's the first story in your book. It isn't really about a box. It's about greed, conscience, and how well we truly know the people closest to us.