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Listing 15 stories.

While driving a heart transplant to a patient on the verge of death, a man reflects on his past and the importance of his work.

When a bus is taken hostage, a woman comes to terms with her death.

Your tire blows out on a long drive. While you try to fix it, an uncanny encounter leads to a fatal crash.

In New York, a girl’s uncle dies from Covid and is left in their apartment because the morgues are at capacity. As the girl looks for a way to keep her uncle’s body from scaring her little brother, she depends on the generosity of strangers to help her get through this strange time.

Out of sheer desperation, two sex workers break into a vacant home on Christmas, indulging themselves and falling asleep. When one of them wakes up, she finds her companion dead in the bathroom and must decide how to protect herself.

After her father kills himself, a young girl runs away with a traveling, unhoused stranger she meets at the bus stop. The two scrape and save for a life together until one day, she wakes up and he's gone. After looking for him in the cold, surviving an assault, and accepting help from a stranger, the girl realizes he's betrayed her, taking their savings and leaving. The next year, she gives birth to their child.

In a rural town, a woman attempts to run away, with her three children, from her abusive husband. While the feat seems straightforward at first, a series of complications causes their escape to become increasingly precarious.

A girl and her mother butt heads when the girl, after her surgery, wants to keep her amputated leg.

When a deadly infection strikes the world, a girl and her family must make and live through difficult choices.