Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

Three myths from human groups on other planets describe the origin of humanity, and the necessity of respecting nature.

An elderly Egyptian servant tells the allegorical story of the white-footed gazelle, a series of vignettes tethered together by shared characters and themes. When finished, the servant suggests that beasts are not confined to fairy tales and also exist, in the form of common people, in everyday life.

A mechanical creature is abandoned in a dystopian China, where he decides to take a journey to find a place of belonging for himself, with the help of a friendly bat.

A creature driven to extinction by human violence tries to survive and exact vengeance for his fallen people.

Ancient, doomed Moggadeet struggles to overcome the deadly cold in order to save their beloved Lillyloo from the harsh, alien world they inhabit together.

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 leech-like, jellyfish-like animal that consumes grief is used for various medicinal purposes, but rituals surrounding these animals have been corrupted in recent years, resulting in these animals' impending extinction.

A mechanical mother bird tells her three children two stories: one of patricide, and the other of a human and a mechanical being and their marriage.

A linguist is called to investigate robots that seem to have created their own language.