In the far future, an alien civilization captures pacifist protesters and, as punishment, turns them into mind-controlled soldiers forced to commit violence. Will they be able to resist the effects of the mind-controlling drug and rebel?

When a sexual assault takes place near his Minneapolis home, a young, expectant father’s desire for erotic violence is triggered, leading him to crave inflicting terror on women.

A young man remembers his sexual trauma while idly watching the torturing of a kidnapped kid.

A housewife violently assaults an unsuspecting intruder with mental images of torture.

When a young man is brutally assaulted by a police officer, he must try to heal his fractured life.

A person driven mad by a voice in their head tries everything to stop it, but the voice is quite persistent.

A mother's mistakes haunt her. When a man brutalizes her, she accepts his punches as punishment for her sins.

A woman is fascinated by her neighbor's strange evening ritual of slamming a metal saber into her balcony wall.

In an America overrun with guns, a mother tries to get her family to see the Fourth of July fireworks with her.

A teenage girl works to outsmart a serial killer whose obsession with punishment and justice leads him to kill girls in the name of banishing their sin. The story is inspired by the Edgar Allen Poe story "The Pit and the Pendulum."