Everything all at once in word form.

Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.

In California, a young woman reflects on her relationship to her father while working on a novel. Through reading her father’s novel, she understands their relationship through his eyes.

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

The characters in violent commercials realize they can resist their dark fates, and they rise up against the consumer establishment.

A series of interconnected vignettes and characters explores themes of race, incarceration, family, heartbreak, and love.

A user tries to wrap her head around all the rules and regulations concerning simulation.

An author discusses with his friend the best way to write about a poor aunt. Their words take on a new power when he manifests a literal poor aunt on his back and draws in spectators.

As he witnesses his neighbor being kidnapped, Kyle must make a choice to either defy his strict, overbearing parents or remain silent.

Al Roosten, a local business owner always second-best to his competitor, Larry Donfrey, contemplates returning to an anti-drug charity event to ensure that Donfrey is able to help his disabled daughter.