A catalog of the tools different alien species use to read and write, leading to fundamental questions about what it means to make patterns of knowledge against the noise of the universe.

A linguist is called to investigate robots that seem to have created their own language.

An old linguistics researcher is ousted from his university position on the frontier of a small island he acculturated. Upon his return home, he begins to believe that he and his life's work are marginal.

A grieving mother and accomplished linguist relives her child's lost life as she learns to communicate with the aliens that have landed on earth.

In wake of the father's death, a family tries to pull themselves together, but a strange garden only seems to bring them apart.

A man attempts to find his way back to his city—but it's not the way it was.

While exploring an abandoned planet with her crew, a woman struggles to cope with her sister's death—and her sister's clone.

A gifted spellcrafter ponders an ethical question regarding the dead: to reanimate or to not reanimate?

Denied from countless jobs due to accommodations requests, a neurodivergent person finally lands upon the right job for them.