When a group of adults get stranded in the middle of nowhere, they seek shelter from the rain in a secluded cabin, only to be cast into a horror show created by a child's imagination.

In the 1950s, a young girl tells her neighbor that her mother is dead. The neighbor is dubious, until she realizes that the young girl may be telling the truth.

When a deadly infection strikes the world, a girl and her family must make and live through difficult choices.

In a future where death is volunteered and the population is controlled, a soon-to-be father waits for his triplets to be born—and he must find three volunteers to die in order for them to live.

A mother takes her son and his friend to a prison to see the electric chair to teach the boys about right and wrong at an early age.

A teacher in Washington tries to comfort one of his students—an orphan who is dying from a chronic disease—opting to be her guardian for the summer even in the face of her looming, imminent death.

A series of deaths leave students wondering about life. After watching their class's pet gerbil, fish and plants die, the students are left wondering if their school is cursed.

The brutal death of a baby on her street makes a young girl consider her own mother's morbid work.

One day, a middle-aged couple takes in a child orphaned by a horrible crime.

When child protective services shows up on her doorstep with a stepson she's never met, a woman hauls the kid to her childhood home in Idaho. She finds work as a fire lookout and grows attached to the child, who is put in danger by natural disaster.