The Beacon/One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty

These tales are moderately entertaining. Charles Martin Smith whom I remember from "American Graffitti," plays a doctor whose car breaks down. He wanders into a village where the beacon of a lighthouse decides who lives or dies. Like "The Lottery," it's the theme of "we have always done it this way." In the second one, a guy named Rosenthal is a financial success but gains no joy from his success. Some little tin soldiers hold his ability to return to the past. He meets himself as a child, hoping to change things, but that isn't easy. This is a decent story, superior to the first one, but the message is a bit depressing.