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A man considers the possibility of multiple realities, and creates possible scenarios for how his life could have turned out; including one where he is a famous football player, another where he's a stay-at-home dad caring for a daughter who has Down Syndrome, and another where she doesn't.
After being laid off from his job, a man struggles to find meaning in a utopian world where all of his basic needs are already met for him.
In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.
A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.
A research psychologist visits a peculiar asylum patient who recounts his life story. The patient warns the researcher about how obsession with the pursuit of knowledge can make one lose sight of their humanity until it is unsalvageable.
In a future where technology has advanced to the point where humans can undergo "optimization" to rid themselves of emotions and increase their mental functions, one man decides to cling to his humanity in an effort to atone for his sins and appreciate the beauty of being human.
In Michigan, a recently divorced professor reflects on what it means to exist, first alone in his empty apartment and then alongside his student in a mission to find a missing girl.
As a woman slips in and out of sleep, her dreams become windows to moments in her life.
A man who goes through life with visions of people from other time periods must answer the question of his purpose with only a cryptic computer printout to guide him.
In an eccentric take on the afterlife, a recently deceased man in his mid-20s reminisces on his life and marriage--two things he gradually learns were more complicated than he initially assumed.