After a woman's paleontologist fiancé is attacked by five men in a bar and hospitalized, she imagines how their lives might have gone differently—if her fiancé were a dinosaur.

On a rainy day at school, a man with a voice that sounds like "beginnings" interrupts a singing lesson led by a schoolteacher with a "disappearing" voice.

A story is on trial for falsely claiming to be science fiction in a satirical 1940’s London courtroom.

A young actor tours for two months with a legendary troupe through the Andes, and continues to reflect on it nine years later.

Now estranged from her son, a music teacher recounts the event that first sowed distrust in their relationship—an event that involved an energetic dog, a strange-looking man, and a banana.

An eighteen-year-old kid's life is forever changed one night in New York City when he meets a legendary musician.

A young man is invited to a close family friend's opera performance; years later, the man reconnects with the singer and begins to uncover several family secrets.

Two men putting on a production for their New York theater company seek out a legendary, elderly actor, but upon finding him, they meet a man as dilapidated as the theater he once worked for.

When a grandfather attempts to bring his grandson out of his shell by taking him to a musical in New York, curated and incessant ads almost prevent them from seeing the show.

A jazz band drives through the night to make a rehearsal in the Jim Crow South. When they stop at a gas station for dinner, the band members' nonstop antics cause them to make enemies.