A girl quietly watches as her uptight father takes up fly tying. One night, the girl's father allows her to make her own fly tie.

A city employs people to act strangely to order to make others feel normal.

A poor seamstress struggles with her jealousy when she is tasked with making a shroud out of silk for a girl who once teased her.

An elderly couple argue over their farm and house labor. When they agree to switch responsibilities, they must confront their obstinacy, strained relationship, and most significantly, exhausted old age as they struggle to complete their tasks.

In the quarantine stage of the 2020 pandemic, a woman and her husband reflect on their marriage, how time has somehow conflated, making them, at once, who they are now and who they used to be.

The asteroid work crews don't have much to do but tell tall tales to each other. One man tells a particularly riveting account of an expedition where he met a strange parasitic species that inhabits human bodies and barely escaped unscathed—or did he?

When an ex-prisoner-turned-cowboy becomes a farmhand, he forms unconventional relationships with the elderly brother and sister who own the ranch.

A couple of old folks retired in a North Carolina countryside have their idyllic lives interrupted by unwelcome guests from the bottom of the hill—two lower class men who are looking to take what they feel is rightly theirs.

A child observes their father’s strange obsession with dressing up the pole in their front yard as they grow up.

A lonely retiree attempts to tell his Black cleaning lady about his imprisonment in an incarceration camp, but the woman rushes to finish her work before Christmas.