A writing critic reviews the construction of Charles Chesnutt’s stories and how to write surfiction.

A catalog of the tools different alien species use to read and write, leading to fundamental questions about what it means to make patterns of knowledge against the noise of the universe.

A young Native American man visits a burial site on a nearby island and must reflect on both his allegiance to his culture and to himself.

A man reflects on the past week while an unexpected storm rages outside, and he compares the events that follow with the fall of the Roman Empire.

A Black poet living in an old plantation house struggles to maintain control of her mind by writing the stories of her ancestors. When one of those ancestors begins possessing her and forcing her to kill as punishment, she must choose between continuing to document their stories or being silenced forever.

A writer receiving feedback from a professor on their drafts is sure that the person on the other end is a man. They wrestle with their own hidden identities until the end of their literary relationship comes with an unexpected revelation.

Writing a foreword, a man reflects on his relationship to a writer and said writer's wife.

A team of female scientists excavate an ancient burial site located off of Lake Superior. Uncovering inhuman remains, they begin to question if the human bones were simply decorations for the tombs of something far more sinister.