In a Tucson, Arizona of the near future, an Asian American engineer races to salvage her prized creation, a stratosphere-orbiting balloon, before it can be hijacked to serve nefarious purposes.

An astronaut working on a floating station in the upper reaches of Venus' atmosphere falls down to the planet's surface, where he knows he will die. As an astronaut falls down to Venus' surface from the upper reaches of its atmosphere, he tries everything he can to survive.

A dispossessed group in the skies searches for the land where they can finally breathe.

After the father turns into a tree, a family struggles to figure out what to do with him.

A doctor ponders their time spent with a planet-sized library in the wake of its scheduled destruction.

After infested kudzu cover the field surrounding a boy and his mother's house, the boy discovers a horrific secret laying within it.

A spirit, once stranded on earth, finally returns to his realm–but ponders the rightness of his choice.

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