An overly sympathetic woman never allows herself room for hatred— even as her suffocating boss stalks and harasses her.

In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.

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 Confederate officer begrudgingly fights in the American Civil War until his disastrous last battle helps seal the fate of the war for good. After the war, he constantly repents for his critical mistakes until, decades later, he comes to a shocking revelation about the fateful battle.

In a society where everyone is masked and takes on a new personality every day, an underground network seeks to return to their original identities.

A man and his elderly, mentally-ill mother battle for control of their home's thermostat in a future climate of extremely high temperatures year-round.

A disillusioned candy store owner feels burnt out with his current life and begins to project his past mistakes on the actions of a young thieving customer.

A man suddenly realizes that he hates his wife, and resolves to free himself.

A graduate student, on a trip in the Sonoran Desert, contemplates quitting her PhD program and moving on with life.

An accomplished but ineffectual columnist searches for fulfillment, until a death in the family causes him to question the family he took for granted.