A writer for the ’60s most famed and experimental television series watches the shows phantasmic creator choose between recluse genius and a quaint life of normalcy. Faced with stubborn alcoholism, a hit television series resemblant of the twilight zone, and a tree stump with questionably magical properties, the narrator watches cinematic wunderkind David Findley toe the line between brilliance and delusion.

An unassuming attendee of Gertrude Stein’s famed Paris salon reflects on his time as a writer. Twenty years after Stein’s passing, he realizes the profound truths of her life, art, and legacy.

On his way to use the healing spring to cure his pneumonia, a man meets a freedman who tells his story of escaping slavery and helps the man reimagine his relationship with his long-lost father.

In Arizona at the turn of the twentieth century, three black women— a motel owner, her partner, and the motel’s cook— receive a threatening visit from the son of the motel owner's former partner. As the women and the cook’s son deal with the aftermath of the man’s visit, they confront the curses and bad juju that haunts the motel owner’s past and shapes their present.

Writing a foreword, a man reflects on his relationship to a writer and said writer's wife.

A Black writer in the 1930s sets out for Durham working on a project about the folklore of ex-slaves. During his work, he comes across the Night Doctors who will take everything he has for him to go free.

When a man moves in to a new home down the road from a strange couple, he finds himself audience to a sad and bitter series of events replete with bouts of poverty, marital drama, infidelity, and abandonment.

In the depths of his mind, a writer tries to uncover the autonomous, nefarious motivations of his own characters.

A fanciful reimagining of the nine enslaved people who provided each of the teeth in George Washington's set of dentures: an immigrant, a conjurer, a slave trader, a cook, a mystical being, an aspiring soldier, a runaway, a blacksmith, and a dream.

REQUIRES RESCANNING