When a superhero gives up on humanity, the US president picks the first person the superhero saved--a young, wealthy, Black woman in LA--to try to talk him out of destroying the world. When the superhero reveals dark facts about his past, the woman finds all her pre-prepared arguments seem meaningless.

A diverse array of passengers and crew aboard a 777 commercial airplane are on their way to Boston when the pilot informs everyone of a presumable military attack in Guam.

An alternate universe where all that was improbable begins to happen a lot. A black female narrator navigates the ever crumbling New York City in this new world order.

In an apocalyptic far future where aliens have driven humanity underground, a superhuman mother goes on a journey to kill the strongest of the aliens. However, in order to complete her mission, she must take her family with her and ask them to make sacrifices of their own—for her, and for the liberation of the human race.

After the death of his mother, a young boy unhappily spends time with his wimpy uncle and witnesses a moment of unexpected heroism.

After dying in an attack, a fish farmer accepts a deal to be resurrected from the dead and join a special team, who have been made into super-soldiers through extensive surgery. But the team is given very little information about their missions, and over time, the fish farmer becomes concerned with the morality of their duties.

In a post-apocalyptic America, two brothers travel across the country to find a woman who can help save one of them from a terrifying magical fate.

In an apocalyptic future, a team of undead time travel back to a doomed flight to rescue the passengers on board in a routine but elaborate mission. Getting the passengers through a portal is not easy without disrupting the fabric of space-time, but the passengers, healthy and alive, are the only hope to populate a desperate future world.

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.

An American veteran who watched his friend drown in a field of excrement in Vietnam drives in circles around the lake in his hometown ruminating on how he might have saved his friend, won a Silver Star for valor, and made his father proud.