After a drunk college boy falls off a balcony, a slew of characters--a groundskeeper, another student, a chaplain, and an RA--relate to his death in different ways. Their stories are sidelined for the core matter: that a boy died.

After her lover abandons her for someone else, a woman plummets to her death on a Monday night, only to return as a ghostly presence who finds none of her problems solved.

After his death, a Judge converses with an old friend and a philosopher about the reality of an afterlife and grapples with the idea of regaining people he’s missed his entire life.

When a young girl in a contemporary northwestern American town dies, one of her neighbors and former friends rethinks her relationship with death.

In the days after his wife dies, an older man must confront his newly solitary life, both the good and the bad.

A man wakes up one day and realizes the world has ended, and he is the only survivor. He wanders aimlessly and crashes at another house before encountering a woman, who seems to be the only other survivor.

Determined his death is approaching, a man pays a last visit to both his wife's grave and his son's ghost and tries to say goodbye.

In limbo between life and death after falling five hundred feet into a cement mixer, a construction worker reflects on the nature of love.

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.

A little girl sits down by her dying grandmother’s bedside to receive an important warning about how she should live her life with the knowledge that death will come to her, too.