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.

A crow tries to make a name for herself.

When their housekeeper robot breaks down, a family contemplates the nature of her sentience.

When a man's brother disappears, he thinks back to their arduous relationship—and the traumatic moment which fractured it.

Three boys, discriminated against at their boarding school, find a consequential way to commune with the boarding school's founder.

Several human beings contemplate the case of a boy handed over to aliens.