You never know what you will encounter in a lost-and-found box -- random items, lost histories, and left-behind fragments of very different lives. Something thrilling, perhaps, or something banal, something mysterious, maybe even something that defies belief. The same is true of Las Vegas, a city that attracts a staggering variety of people, stories, and schemes and draws its unique energies from the interaction of so many random elements. Nowhere else is it so easy to get lost and so vital to be found. That makes "lost and found" the perfect theme for the 10 writers in this anthology to explore a city that conceals so much and reveals even more.