A young screenwriter in Los Angeles is exposed to the corruption beneath the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle after befriending a director and his wife.

A writer for the ’60s most famed and experimental television series watches the shows phantasmic creator choose between recluse genius and a quaint life of normalcy. Faced with stubborn alcoholism, a hit television series resemblant of the twilight zone, and a tree stump with questionably magical properties, the narrator watches cinematic wunderkind David Findley toe the line between brilliance and delusion.

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.

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

A fiercely competitive screenwriter is initially furious when the biggest production of the year gets handed to an Austrian foreigner - then astonished when he reads what the Austrian writes.

A would-be burglar enters a suburban home. In the same town, a woman drives home for an exterminator appointment, and her husband tries to write the season premiere of a time-traveling crime show.

When a young aspiring writer takes residence with a Jewish couple, he is pressured into maintaining a façade about his potential for publishing.

An actress rolls through the plan of a rehearsed production while making small mistakes to spite the production team.

In a near future world, a famous computerized drama director is pushed beyond his artistic limits when a random science fiction writer asks him to adapt his novel for the digital stage—for the alluring incentive of real gold payment.

After her college-aged daughter vanishes without saying goodbye, a former Canadian news anchor must rebuild her life. She reckons with her past choices, both personal and professional, which prove to be more than she bargained for.