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Your tire blows out on a long drive. While you try to fix it, an uncanny encounter leads to a fatal crash.

An incestuous family leaves for vacation and ends up in the heart of the Olympic National Forest. Here, their traumatized daughter begins searching for the real world equivalent of the void she mentally escapes to during the sexual abuse she endures from her father.

For one man, the world turns upside down when his girlfriend breaks up with him, and for everybody else, the world literally turns upside down in a deadly, catastrophic reversal of gravity.

An author discusses with his friend the best way to write about a poor aunt. Their words take on a new power when he manifests a literal poor aunt on his back and draws in spectators.

A man reflects on his countless journeys on Greyhounds—and the woman he hoped to see at his destinations.

After two neighboring men’s wives leave them, they go on a fishing trip in the Bogs. The trip takes a turn for the worst with bad weather and the presence of an unwanted fisherman.

Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.

After a tragic loss, a widower goes to extreme measures he swore to leave behind in his dark past to bring back his deceased wife and child. Worried for his troubled friend, a young man must travel to an abandoned silo, where he hopes to find the widower and save him from a terrible curse.

When a young couple in a park joins hands and miraculously teleports back home, the man’s subsequent obsession with recreating that one-off spark of magic drives a wedge in between them.