A marine biologist raises the offspring of a giant creature known as The Beast which destroyed Seattle fifteen years prior. A marine biologist discovers the motives of a giant creature known as The Beast, which destroyed Seattle and was nuked to death fifteen years prior. A marine biologist goes to extraordinary lengths to set the record straight on a giant creature known as The Beast, which destroyed Seattle and was nuked to death fifteen years prior.

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

Some time in the distant future, a children's toy inspection agency reviews imported alien toys to make sure they are safe for "Terran" children to use. The inspectors play the three imported games and suspect nefarious intentions from the "Ganymedean" toy makers.

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

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

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.

A woman embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.