Short stories curated by LeVar Burton Selections

Listing 58 stories.

In San Francisco, a Chinese grandmother teaches her granddaughter how to pickle the memories she no longer wants to carry with her, much to her daughter’s chagrin.

While waiting for their reverend to arrive for their prayer group amidst a horrible storm, a pair of elderly Southern women try to repair a broken friendship by sharing stories about the mysterious acts of God that saved them.

A man finds God’s overcoat at a thrift shop, compelling him to do good for the people whose prayers land in his pockets.

A vampire living in NYC as a human, with a wife and son, is tempted to kill once more. After he refrains, his vampire-hunter wife, always ready to kill him if he kills a human, encourages him to be his truer self in other ways that will make him a better father for his son.

A woman finds a genie in a bottle after the end of the world — except that he's not a genie, he's a wish-fulfiller and former theater-critic, and this is the sixth apocalypse through which he's had to live.

When her husband leaves, a divorced woman finds comfort in her home with another version of herself.

A dog’s owners give her the ability to talk and realize she’s Black.

A woman loses her glasses at a rest stop on the way to visit her girlfriend. She knows that her girlfriend will be furious if she is late, and that she cannot drive without her glasses, so she accepts help from a strange man who leads her down the highway and they begin to walk the rest of the way together.

A woman is responsible for finding telepathic children finds herself at a crossroads when her former employers are after her.

In a modern-day world, an old lady with an uneventful life finds the Holy Grail in a pawn shop and buys it, thinking it will look nice on her mantle. The next day, a knight in shining armor shows up searching for it.