Results for Characters Who Are Just Presences
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A brother-in-law lives with a family, but his presence in the house slowly fades away.
An author discusses with his friend the best way to write about a poor aunt. Their words take on a new power when he manifests a literal poor aunt on his back and draws in spectators.
A movie star lost in grief over the death of his long-term girlfriend injects himself with her digitally-preserved personality so he can hallucinate her presence, but the visions begin to go horribly wrong.
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.
When a mysterious new member joins a group of struggling authors, the friends discover that they may have a supernatural creature in their midst, who can grant a single author success above all the others—but at a cost.
As a talk show host, John Q. Slade speaks with many peculiar stars. Tonight's guest is none other than Mickey Mouse himself.
In 2060, playwright and actor Jacoby Cass creates theater performances you can step inside of - but the competitive, edgy cast members of his latest work may reenact a murder in more ways than one.
Three young adults who rent a surrogate robot to quell their loneliness find themselves even more alone.
In a world where there is no smell, taste, pain, death, or digestion, the people are left hungering for one thing: love.
A deceased man’s friends and coworkers try to come up with the best way to mourn him and comfort his widow, even though it seems like she doesn’t need it.