A Los Angeles speech pathologist is assigned to the case of a presumably mentally-ill woman who speaks in gibberish that turns out to be Old English. When the woman disappears, deciphering her mysterious writing leads the pathologist to wonder if she has stumbled across a time traveler.

In Paraguay, following the end of the Stroessner dictatorship, a young man strikes a friendship of sorts with a sensational local mystic who writes letters from the ghosts of a person's past.

The Chappalwala family sends to the Mongerji’s magical letters containing animals and plants from around the world, but this practice which endured for generations comes to an end.

A loveless, disturbed man with a hand fetish seeks out the perfect pair of hands and eventually finds himself drawn to a medical illustrator.

A Japanese woman who has begun to forget her name, frantically seeks the help of an eccentric clinician who eventually claims to know what happened to her name.

An author discusses with his friend the best way to write about a poor aunt. Their words take on a new power when he manifests a literal poor aunt on his back and draws in spectators.

Dermot, a being with an insatiable hunger but a controlled demeanor, works with police to find and kill predators, like himself, who are ravaging the city.

When a distant relative dies, a professor receives cryptic messages from an elusive stranger.

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 young woman in an unhappy relationship with a deeply bizarre apartment manager observes his strange new tenants.