An investment banker dies of colon cancer, only to find himself in a messy office with a man who claims to have met him many times before — and who tells the banker that he can choose either to relive his life from start to finish, or to end his existence for good.

A woman faces a choice after she is brought back to life after the annihilation of the human race: Should she ask the race who resurrected her to resurrect all humankind?

In a world where death is impermanent, a young woman wakes again and again in a futuristic dating center where wealthy men visit long-dead women and decide whether or not to pay for their body's full revival.

In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.

A Chinese-American woman dies on her honeymoon from a crocodile attack, sending her to heaven and causing her to lose her memory of her husband and soulmate. In the afterlife, she must work to remember that which she left behind.

In a fantasy world, as punishment for staring at a naked goddess, a king-mage is reborn as a mortal. Several other cursed demigods hatch a plan to be reborn as children of the naked goddess, who is in love with the king-mage.

When a fourteen-year-old boy moves with his family to a farm town, he reads a book that leads him to have a crisis of faith and he begins to question what really happens after death.

The tragic loss of his childhood friend puts a boy on the path of religion - but his inner feelings remain as repressed and turbulent as they always were.

In a distant land, a stillborn child roaming the Earth as a ghost bridges the gap between death and life.

A nameless soul is stranded on an unknown shore, watching the countless soldiers of wars long past go about their nightly activities.