At a monk retreat, a guilty pharmacist tries to reclaim his attention span—and take accountability for what he has done.

When his social-outcast, chess buddy from high school becomes obsessed with neuroscience research to find a way to eliminate distracting side-thoughts, a man finds himself exposed to a mysterious infection that will doom his wife and himself to

Everything all at once in word form.

A spirit, once stranded on earth, finally returns to his realm–but ponders the rightness of his choice.

A girl challenges the spider which has, for better or for worse, remained inseparable from her family and her ancestors for generations.

When a man's brother disappears, he thinks back to their arduous relationship—and the traumatic moment which fractured it.

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.