A couple attends the show of a marvelous, sensuous, and regal African American singer in Paris. The wife of the couple finds herself struggling for a grip as the pleasure of seeing this performer infiltrates her fortress of restraint.

A person driven mad by a voice in their head tries everything to stop it, but the voice is quite persistent.

When a guitar-wielding teenage girl moves into the house next door, a boy suddenly finds his world of stellar debate performance and strict Nigerian parentage at odds with his newfound love of heavy metal.

A writing critic reviews the construction of Charles Chesnutt’s stories and how to write surfiction.

A woman has an affair with a female lover who works in retouching models and imagines retouching the woman's face and body. The lover carries multiple selves inside of her, one of them a muscular, furry, aggressive man whose body hers (the lover's) sometimes resembles in bed.

In the far future, a woman is selected to undergo a Great Becoming. As she is forced to choose what she will become, she realizes that someone people do not have to choose at all.

In the depths of his mind, a writer tries to uncover the autonomous, nefarious motivations of his own characters.

In a world where mushrooms feed on creativity, an under-appreciated artist undergoes a risky operation to replace his dying inner voice. But when the first transplant fails, he must find another donor, or risk being banished from society forever.

After being recruited for a so-called neurological study, man meditates on the imaginary city he sees in his dreams.

Natalia, a young metal head surviving in the gloom and harsh conditions of post-communist Ukraine, enters a marriage website. She sends emails back and forth to her correspondent, Montana Bob, with hopes of using him to escape to America.