A man begins searching for another world after being told of a place he had never heard of from a friend. What he finds reveals a secret world that exists in the present-day society.

A war correspondent recounts meeting Corporal Cuckoo, who has been alive for over four centuries and holds what he believes is the secret recipe to eternal life.

Set in ancient Asia, two lovers conspire against their powerful leaders to avert a sure-to-be devastating war by mistranslating their correspondences.

A woman remembers how she met her unusual husband in a ski lodge and the series of events that led them to their current home in the South Pole.

When married scientists invent a means of observational time travel, they hope to expose the WWII atrocities committed on Chinese prisoners by the Japanese at Unit 731 in Pingfang. However, their efforts only stir up political controversy and hateful backlash from denialists, and ultimately reveal that nations - and individuals - often choose to hide from the past rather than confront it.

A woman goes into the woods and learns a horrific truth about her late grandmother.

A collection of excerpts regarding humanity's various pursuits of science throughout time.

Throughout her life, a young woman from the future has gathered evidence about her ancestors to understand the way they lived before and during the era when society was reimagined.

While citizens ponder whether or not to dig up an unmarked grave, one of them shares a tale passed down for generations about a mysterious wine merchant and what was found in one of his casks.

A man working at the Met is given an interesting—and daring—proposition regarding one of the museum’s artifacts.