A young boy tries to help his parents make money by selling ice cream at his mother's work at a Snow White Laundry. An accident with one of the machines causes chaos and the narrator is forced to leave.

Brought together by strange Kool-Aid, a bunch of kids reflect on their respective griefs.

A woman examines a period of time in her childhood spent with her sister and the babysitter's son, viewing it through the lens of an adult, and ponders how the experience might have shaped her as a person.

When a young boy on the cusp of adulthood fails to catch a repeat shoplifter from the family grocery store, he must reevaluate what he wants from life.

You work at a bar serving memory-based drinks to broken patrons you care about too much for your own good.

An old bar cleaner, resentful of the new ownership, decides to play a trick that has drastic consequences.

In Seattle, a college student babysits for the family of a man who will later became a tech billionaire. He offers her a job at his start-up, and she declines, a decision she reflects on years later.

After his grandson gets fired from yet another job, an old man watches the boy resort to a deceitful scheme in order to make money, causing tension to run rampant through the household.

A neighbor watches a nearby family struggle with financial difficulties and find ways to have fun with an idle car.

The young son of a grocer becomes fascinated by a peculiar customer who speaks little and only eats crackers and milk.