A graduate student, on a trip in the Sonoran Desert, contemplates quitting her PhD program and moving on with life.

In a world where there is no smell, taste, pain, death, or digestion, the people are left hungering for one thing: love.

In the far future, a woman is selected to undergo a Great Becoming. As she is forced to choose what she will become, she realizes that someone people do not have to choose at all.

A man's lonely life focused on the pursuit of reason and music leaves him questioning what more there may be in the lives of other people and of religion.

In a dystopian future dominated by technology, a man is ejected from his orgynism—a mass of sedated human bodies connected for their own sexual pleasure. Without that blissful oblivion, the man is left to wander what is left of his city.

A middle-aged woman looks forward to growing old because she believes older people are less beholden to other's expectations, but her friend disagrees.

In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.

After being laid off from his job, a man struggles to find meaning in a utopian world where all of his basic needs are already met for him.

A slice of grim parts of life

When aliens land on a planet new to them, they find a population obsessed with a virtual reality and uninterested in the intense beauty of the natural world around them.