Frank Boles leaves Minnie's jook joint after a drunken evening and has an unexplainable encounter with an otherworldly visitor.

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

A Black teen in dystopian Boston works sealing cracks which open underneath the city, threatening to swallow it whole. During one shift, he sees through a black-hole-type crack to an alternate reality in which his queer desire is fully realized.

In intense discussion a group leader ponders aloud, asking why hermits hide and what defines outcasts, among other cerebral queries. A group of friends discusses the oddities they have seen and perceived in their lives leather-clad hermits and criminal astronauts among them. They debate the purpose of hermitage, the classification of outcasts, and the purpose of their own reflections.

All over a large city, people are disappearing down rabbit holes into fantasy worlds which are tailor-made just for them. As a young woman watches the streets of her city empty, she begins to worry that her own custom-made rabbit hole may never appear—and she could be stuck in the human world forever.

During the first scene, a man complains to his wife about Western civilization and tries to convince her to live in the desert with him. In another scene, a different man comes home to his sister and tells her about his quiet day observing daily chaos at the bar.

A middle-aged man attends a self-help seminar in hopes of finding the resolve to confront his quirky and off-putting sister and ask her to move out of his home.

A young boy's frank essay on moral principles is erroneously published in the local paper, and the resulting fallout is mayhem for both the boy's family and the paper's editors.

A man takes his little cousin out for her first trip into dangerous territory, only for her to get sucked into danger following an accident.

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