In Michigan, a recently divorced professor reflects on what it means to exist, first alone in his empty apartment and then alongside his student in a mission to find a missing girl.

Passengers remain on a bus that may never reach its destination.

A young man who has wasted his life finds himself sucked into a non-human world — a gray, ghostly landscape to which those who don't make use of their time are drawn, potentially forever.

A man reflects on his countless journeys on Greyhounds—and the woman he hoped to see at his destinations.

A strange intergalactic force infiltrates the consciousness of a modern Earthling, prompting meditations on the role of the human, the loneliness of life, and the greater unknown.

In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.

As a woman slips in and out of sleep, her dreams become windows to moments in her life.

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

A dispossessed group in the skies searches for the land where they can finally breathe.

A man's lonely life focused on the pursuit of reason and music leaves him questioning what more there may be in the lives of other people and of religion.