In the future, all humans must wait in an impossibly long line, where getting to the front means securing one’s future and never having to worry about money again. Waiting in the line for decades on end, the worst of humanity comes out.

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.

Lying in a hospital bed, a time-traveling computer program asks a dying man, who abandoned his family to live his life to the fullest, if it was all worth it in the end.

Several human beings contemplate the case of a boy handed over to aliens.

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.

In the kingdom ritual to become men, two boys stray the path to embark on a legendary hunt for the impundulu.

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

Following through on her dreams to be on the water, a girl working on a ship discovers a dark secret about the ocean.