A slice of grim parts of life

Everything all at once in word form.

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

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

A depressed woman searches for a new apartment in her city. As she prepares to move, lethargy threatens to inundate her.

As a woman grows older, she falls into a deep sadness while the men around her constantly tell her to cheer up.

After two of a man's acquaintances die by suicide, he goes on a hunting trip and can't stop thinking about why they wanted to die.

After 300,000 teens and young adults commit mass suicide, a student pursuing their PhD investigates what caused the Year of Suicide, forcing them to relive their trauma and navigate the process of healing from so much death.

A man tells his life story leading up to his suicide, attempting to explain the seemingly-inescapable mental paradoxes he found himself facing in his quest to be an authentic person, which reinforced, time after time, his belief that he was a fraud.

After being laid off from his job, a man struggles to find meaning in a utopian world where all of his basic needs are already met for him.