After a zombie epidemic destroys America, the government forces people of color into internment camps. Two young Vietnamese Americans go on a mission to liberate the camps, meeting people along the way who remind them about their hopes for the future.

A typical nice-guy colleague with a toxically positive attitude delivers an exhortation to his colleagues about eliminating self-doubt so as to increase work performance.

In the far future, an alien civilization captures pacifist protesters and, as punishment, turns them into mind-controlled soldiers forced to commit violence. Will they be able to resist the effects of the mind-controlling drug and rebel?

In a time fraught with fear surrounding school shootings, a parent struggles to hone her anxiety into a productive tool for protecting her children. But after devoting a decade of her life to developing a quantum simulation program, she learns that the answer she has been seeking is far simpler than she could have ever guessed. How does an anxious parent reconcile their desire to protect their children with the risks of interfering with the simulation of the known world? That is the question the narrator seeks to answer, confronting the inadequacy of fear and preparation in a time of bone-chilling crisis.

Years after facing abuse from the hermit overseeing a nature preserve, two children—now adults—enact their revenge.

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.

At the root of her complicated family formed by her father and stepmother, a girl faces years of abuse through what they consider to be a “royal beating.”

A woman embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.