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In an alternative past where each human can access the minds of all other people at all times, a car crash causes one man to lose connection, and he becomes infatuated with the feeling of having a singular mind.

A somewhat estranged family grapples with the impending death of their mother.

An old woman experiences several blackouts as she approaches death.

A research psychologist visits a peculiar asylum patient who recounts his life story. The patient warns the researcher about how obsession with the pursuit of knowledge can make one lose sight of their humanity until it is unsalvageable.

In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.

A man suddenly realizes that he hates his wife, and resolves to free himself.

A depressed woman drives her friends and therapist crazy, going ceaselessly on about the childhood trauma she incurred during her parents’ divorce settlings.

A man recalls his intimate friendship with his former English professor, who resolved to fuel his unsatisfied desire for playwriting during the time they were apart. In their reunion decades later, instead of the brilliant play he promised, the professor shows his former student a disturbing product of his mental instability.

A graduate student, on a trip in the Sonoran Desert, contemplates quitting her PhD program and moving on with life.