An eleven-year-old girl who comes from a family of poor cranberry farmers must come to terms with her changing body and becoming a woman when her older sister's romantic pursuit takes an interest in her.

A teenage boy falls in love with a two-thousand-year-old girl that he discovers preserved in a nearby bog. But not everyone approves of their blossoming relationship, especially not the boy's mother.

After the seas rise, food becomes scarce, prehistoric creatures return from extinction, and people evolve in horrifying ways. One girl is in love with a human man, but she worries what will come of him if they are together, secretly knowing her mutations may one day consume her and put him in danger.

An academic prides herself in her powers of observation, but finds herself unable to change the fate of those suffering around her—whether it be a microscopic rotifer in biology lab, a long-dead boy whose letters she reads from the 1800s, or her twenty-one-year old cousin.

Two female biologists spend a few months in a hotel in the Northeastern United States to research shore life, and whereas one pursues romance with men, the other feels spurned by unrequited love.

Cursed to passively watch others rise before her, a woman finds love as she awaits to be chosen for her family's magical inheritance. When the moment arrives, she must choose between a life with her mysterious lover or abandon her love and finally accept her most coveted desire.

Ancient, doomed Moggadeet struggles to overcome the deadly cold in order to save their beloved Lillyloo from the harsh, alien world they inhabit together.

After getting dumped by her best friend, a woman stays home alone on Halloween to find solace in the writing of an 18th-century naturalist.

A teenage girl living in a near-future Cape Cod battles with her biology teacher over climate change. Her teacher argues that young people lack the motivation to fight climate crisis, but the girl reveals an unexpectedly deep understanding of sustainability.

A boy finds a mysterious caterpillar-like creature in the forest one day. He brings it home and kills it to add to his wildlife collection, but becomes haunted by creatures he can no longer control.