A man at a family gathering reminisces on his early adulthood and his time spent with a larger-than-life cousin.

When a mysterious new member joins a group of struggling authors, the friends discover that they may have a supernatural creature in their midst, who can grant a single author success above all the others—but at a cost.

A boy wonders who his real friends are.

Two childhood best friends have trouble reconciling the nature of their friendship—and the different worlds they now live in—after having grown up together.

A man travels around Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in a trio of crooks. He and the woman he is in love with ditch the leader of the group.

On a road trip from Ann Arbor to Buffalo, a young man stops in Cleveland and meets a whole host of characters who, like the pseudonyms they've chosen, aren't quite what they seem.

A man must save his best friend - or at least hear his story - after he's sentenced to death for double homicide.

A writer struggles to craft a story and begins to lose his own sanity when an idea finally comes to him.

A gay man living in Chicago and working for special events at NPR puts his job—and failing relationship—on the line when he offers his best friend from high school an acting job, knowing that his friend has lost all ability to act.

A man succumbs to shock as an important friend betrays him, despite the friend not being visible to the human eye.