Two childhood best friends have trouble reconciling the nature of their friendship—and the different worlds they now live in—after having grown up together.

A man succumbs to shock as an important friend betrays him, despite the friend not being visible to the human eye.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

A boy wonders who his real friends are.

When it's her turn to give her body over to the blood bees, a girl makes a different decision.

Upon escaping from a plantation, a boy discovers his true self in nature.

A spirit, once stranded on earth, finally returns to his realm–but ponders the rightness of his choice.

A doctor ponders their time spent with a planet-sized library in the wake of its scheduled destruction.

When three women are stranded on their way to a spa retreat, something terrifying comes to visit them instead.