At a monk retreat, a guilty pharmacist tries to reclaim his attention span—and take accountability for what he has done.

A man who is chronically late in a society where lateness is fatal takes up an alter ego that seeks to convince people that you shouldn't be a slave to your schedule.

A young man is working at a hotel resort during quarantine-era Covid. When a quirky couple comes to stay, his service to them makes him reconsider why he’s making the lifestyle choices he is and what the point is of self-restraint.

A writer wakes up every day hoping each day would be the day he finally manages to write, though each day he finds new reasons to delay his writing.

A co-worker gives a new staff member an introductory tour of the office, while providing small gossip about other employees along the way.

A woman tries to convince her husband to quit his exhausting job as a traveling salesman. She reflects on the impossibility of having everything that she wants.

A restless housewife gives up sleeping for seventeen days during which she regains the side of her that was lost since she got married. Her lack of sleep finally catches up to her with life-threatening consequences.

As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.

A middle-aged salesman from New Jersey finds himself studying the intricacies of his life and the hospital he stays at after he becomes ill on his flight.

In the quarantine stage of the 2020 pandemic, a woman and her husband reflect on their marriage, how time has somehow conflated, making them, at once, who they are now and who they used to be.