At a monk retreat, a guilty pharmacist tries to reclaim his attention span—and take accountability for what he has done.

A city employs people to act strangely to order to make others feel normal.

When a psychoanalyst's family forces him to give up his poker addiction, he uses the misery of one of his patients, a poker champion, to keep his need to gamble at bay.

Everything all at once in word form.

A typical nice-guy colleague with a toxically positive attitude delivers an exhortation to his colleagues about eliminating self-doubt so as to increase work performance.

When a serial writer decides that he can’t take more of his monotonous life, he destroys his copywriter and leaves his domestic prison to protest the rise of the machines.

Faced with the consequences of his actions, a scientist decides to live in fantasy rather than confront the pain he's caused.

When an LA tour of gruesome celebrity murder sites takes a violent twist, reality becomes legend.

An aspiring artist goes to work for a businessman, hoping he can earn enough to follow his dream. Instead, he is forced to learn that dreams are not as important to the world as money.

A young man is working at a hotel resort during quarantine-era Covid. When a quirky couple comes to stay, his service to them makes him reconsider why he’s making the lifestyle choices he is and what the point is of self-restraint.