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

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.

In the near future, a voice actor narrating a documentary learns about a man who collected and recorded music during the height of the zombie plague, and the strange music he discovered in Appalachia.

In the far future, a woman is selected to undergo a Great Becoming. As she is forced to choose what she will become, she realizes that someone people do not have to choose at all.

Efforts to protect a great leader by creating doubles of him become increasingly drastic, and the true reality of the situation grows more and more unclear as the president is sheltered away in the name of protection and nationalism.