A writer wakes up every day hoping each day would be the day he finally manages to write, though each day he finds new reasons to delay his writing.

A writer struggles to craft a story and begins to lose his own sanity when an idea finally comes to him.

An unhappy firefighter's wife plans to leave her husband, but when tragedy strikes she must decide what she's willing to sacrifice for her marriage.

As flames from a forest fire creep closer to her home and her daughter burns from fever, an Indian American mother has ten minutes to decide what to keep and what to leave behind.

In the midst of a raging fire, two women argue with each other relentlessly to convince a crowd of onlookers either of their destruction or salvation from Jesus Christ.

A ten-year-old girl witnesses a fire at her neighbors house. The arsonist, an employee, is found dead, and the girl is disturbed by his ghostly presence in her mind.

A forest fire riles through the paradisal land of Northern California. Fernanda urges her stubborn, lawyerly father-in-law to evacuate and find safety but his pride puts him in the flames.

An ordinary man gets an inch and a half of mention in the newspaper after stumbling into a low stakes rescue — and the small bit of fame sends him spiraling down a dark, egotistical path.

A writer dying of gangrene in the African savannah reflects on his past experiences and the stories he will never write as he converses with his wife.

A middle-aged writer turns back the clock by twenty years and narrates his ill-fated romance with the beautiful but unattainable girl from his memories.