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

A new TV show displays masked interactions between therapists and clients with a twist: the client's therapist can either be AI or human and neither the client nor the audience will know which.

After returning the I CAN SPEAK mask for babies, which plays and simulates sophisticated speech, a woman receives a lengthy letter from an overly-enthusiastic sales rep about the mask's ability to make babies more intelligent and loveable.

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

Online, space ship storytellers discuss why they tell stories for a living—and how to do it right.

A formerly imprisoned child seeks to understand the higher order beings in their universe.

A man who unknowingly talks to himself wonders why a woman who is satisfied with her marriage is having an affair with him.

In a lengthy dialogue, two men, possibly a psychologist and a patient, discuss adultery, sin, desire, and life.

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

A scientist who specializes in neurolinguistic computing built an ASL translation system to more easily video-call with her deaf sister, who is an avian conservationist. When one of her birds accidentally gets online with the scientist's children, the scientist discovers that her translation software can give a voice to animals too.