A young Black woman living in a dystopian version of Chicago, still rife with inequality, grapples with feelings of guilt, love, and uncertainty about her purpose.

In a poor, rural town, a mother worries about her adult son ever since he moved in with a girl whose family has a no-good reputation.

Sean leads Daniel, in the summer of their youth, to test out a stolen gun.

In a future where "Precogs" predict crimes before they happen, allowing for preemptive arrests, the head of the Precrime Division finds himself slated for a future crime and must grapple with issues of fate, free will, and the system he's upheld.

In an America overrun with guns, a mother tries to get her family to see the Fourth of July fireworks with her.

A writing critic reviews the construction of Charles Chesnutt’s stories and how to write surfiction.

A sister remains a faithful friend to her brother as he navigates the strict parenting of their military father, spending his youth fighting in Vietnam, and his return home after the war as a changed man living apart from his family and forging his own path in life for the first time.

Some time in the distant future, a children's toy inspection agency reviews imported alien toys to make sure they are safe for "Terran" children to use. The inspectors play the three imported games and suspect nefarious intentions from the "Ganymedean" toy makers.

After being grazed by the bullet of a stalker's rifle, a man questions why everyone in town acts so calmly about the incident and wishes he had gotten shot properly.

A hitman rides into a small town to kill his current target, but the assignment does not go according to plan.