In the far future, an alien civilization captures pacifist protesters and, as punishment, turns them into mind-controlled soldiers forced to commit violence. Will they be able to resist the effects of the mind-controlling drug and rebel?

A doctor ponders their time spent with a planet-sized library in the wake of its scheduled destruction.

On the weekend shift, a woman working at the bank finds herself stuck with her creepy supervisor.

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

When a man's brother disappears, he thinks back to their arduous relationship—and the traumatic moment which fractured it.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.