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

A research psychologist visits a peculiar asylum patient who recounts his life story. The patient warns the researcher about how obsession with the pursuit of knowledge can make one lose sight of their humanity until it is unsalvageable.

Essie, a biographer, finds out she has more in common with her subject Matthew Corley, a sleeper agent, when she recreates him as a simulated figure that can be accessed with the purchase of her book.

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

A young gay man attends the wedding of an ex-hookup, and suspects the ex has a fetish for Koreans.

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.

Dermot, a being with an insatiable hunger but a controlled demeanor, works with police to find and kill predators, like himself, who are ravaging the city.

In a high tech, futuristic dystopian world where people's consciousnesses can inhabit the bodies of others, a poor young woman falls ill and her brother--who she has never met--appears to pay her hospital bills. But as the class-related injustice and intense authoritarian power of the government slowly reveals itself, a far sadder and twisted narrative comes to light.

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 depressed woman develops a combative relationship with her therapist, which leads her to take agency over her life.