On a train ride to a metallurgical conference in Chicago, a consultant tries to avoid the debate between pure and applied sciences, but he cannot avoid it when he gets cornered in the washroom by two professors and an undecided bright new recruit.

When a scientist discovers science-based information that negates his world's established creation myth and belief system, he sends the world into chaos, with some zealots clinging desperately to their dogma, while others attempt to embrace the unknown future.

After going on a date with another beast-woman, a woman figures out her date isn't what she seems.

Curious about the archived contents stowed away in her house, a girl tries to figure out the magical, mysterious backstory behind a cemetery.

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

An orchestra tries to pull off an impossible feat: summoning a god.

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.