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.

A doctor ponders their time spent with a planet-sized library in the wake of its scheduled destruction.

In the kingdom ritual to become men, two boys stray the path to embark on a legendary hunt for the impundulu.

Following through on her dreams to be on the water, a girl working on a ship discovers a dark secret about the ocean.

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

A man attempts to find his way back to his city—but it's not the way it was.