After her daughter steals her necklace, a woman reacts with violence and reflects on unhappy moments with her daughter's father, now ex-husband.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

Having just lost their mother, three siblings do their best to preserve her memory even as they deal with unsympathetic adults determined to force change into their lives.

A child observes their father’s strange obsession with dressing up the pole in their front yard as they grow up.

An eerie description of characteristic fairy tale elements and how they are embodied in characters.

After her home is burglarized, Deborah makes some startling realizations about herself and her boyfriend.

In a world where some individuals can access the memories of everyday objects, a man works as a cleaner who scrubs away painful memories stored in people's belongings.

Two years after the death of her mother, a knife saleswoman in New York City struggles to process her grief until one of her customers offers to help her in an unconventional way.

A young woman guards the main exhibit of her family's London museum: The Emerald Coat, a garment which kills whomever dons it by permanently transporting them to another realm. The woman lives as a gatekeeper to death, wondering when she will fulfill what she believes to be her ultimate fate — putting the coat on herself, and leaving this world forever.

As she walks alongside the Hudson River with her friend, a woman excitedly explains her intricate vision of what would give her happiness.