A woman who is able to read people's minds feeds on people's ugly thoughts and craves the taste of horrible, despicable people. After meeting others who also feed on thoughts, the woman tries unsuccessfully to protect a woman she has fallen in love with from becoming a victim.

Kidnapped by a dimension-hopping assassin monk, a ten-year-old girl vows to become a great assassin under the monk's training so she can steal her own life back - but when she is required to assassinate a kind general she decides to risk everything to protect him.

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

When aliens arrive, hungry for the best of earth's cuisine, a master chef must make a difficult decision.

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

Through visions of the past and future, a man ponders his place in the Black freedom struggle.

In wake of the father's death, a family tries to pull themselves together, but a strange garden only seems to bring them apart.