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

A woman has an affair with a female lover who works in retouching models and imagines retouching the woman's face and body. The lover carries multiple selves inside of her, one of them a muscular, furry, aggressive man whose body hers (the lover's) sometimes resembles in bed.

After a painful breakup that leaves you feeling incompetent, you opt for a chimera-transformative surgery that does exactly what the name implies: transforms you into a part-lion, part-goat, part-serpent creature. In a dystopian world that idealizes animal beauty over human beauty, you hope that the change will protect you from getting hurt again.

As a teenage girl stumbles upon a mysterious portal leading her to a utopian, magical world, her storyline converges with that of the author—a middle-aged, married mother of two who has come out as asexual to her husband—leading both to a reckoning with their unfulfilling romantic relationships and deepest desires.

A young woman struggling with body dysmorphia attempts to identify who she is in the face of unexpected interest from a young man.

Onstage at a club, a lesbian couple perform a sexually explicit act, aroused by a complex ruse they construct using ventriloquism.

When trying to spy on his cousin's love interest, a boy stumbles upon a terrifying secret.

When a young couple in a park joins hands and miraculously teleports back home, the man’s subsequent obsession with recreating that one-off spark of magic drives a wedge in between them.

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 woman with a prosthetic heart has the ability to suck evil people's souls out and send them to hell. When her and her partner are treated, the woman must and her partner with insect parts spliced into her face and the power to suck souls dispose of a powerful man’s attempt to capture and use them for his own gain.