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

A young man remembers his sexual trauma while idly watching the torturing of a kidnapped kid.

A writer thinks about the not-so-fine moments of his career right before an exposé about his inappropriate conduct toward various women goes live.

Susan's slow poisoning of her abusive husband starts to feel more immoral to her brother as he befriends the broken man. When is the murder of an abusive husband not okay? As Susan slowing poisons Frank to death, her brother comes to understand how the broken man came to be. Susan's slow poisoning of her abusive husband starts to feel more immoral to her brother as he learns about the man's tragic character.

Compiling notes for an English essay, a sixteen-year-old girl recounts her middle-class upbringing, kleptomania, and eventual coercion into prostitution and assisting with drug use. After she suffers violence and abuse, she is eventually rescued — but the experience traumatizes her.

In the far future, an alien civilization captures pacifist protesters and, as punishment, turns them into mind-controlled soldiers forced to commit violence. Will they be able to resist the effects of the mind-controlling drug and rebel?

A child chained in a cellar abused by their enraged parents decides to take matters into their own hands.

A mother's mistakes haunt her. When a man brutalizes her, she accepts his punches as punishment for her sins.

A bullied young girl feeds a tiger her badness to keep from exploding.

When a young man is brutally assaulted by a police officer, he must try to heal his fractured life.