Hmmm, 3 background stories

http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/crack-up

1) dude smashes office and the ending is so American (by alias Davis)

(...
the
end
ing
is 
SO
...)

2) change of attitude (by D. Finkelstein)

(he
gets
en
light
en
ed)

3) woman  or girl (I can't tell what age she was when she called) drives man beserk just by talking (by Shaz Bennett)

(ju
st by 
talk
ing)