A young boy grows up avoiding his abusive mother and idolizing two men in his life: his father and a boy in his class. But when both of his heroes betray him, he turns to his mother for comfort.

While trying to save a group of kidnapped children, a man becomes captured himself and must figure out how to escape.

A teenage boy searches a bookstore for the perfect gay romance novel, learning an important lesson about literary representation.

In a dystopian society where select boys are surgically mutilated and used as economic tools, a teenager helps track down and capture one of the boys who recently escaped from captivity. Though his goal is to return the escapee to the wealthy creator of these boys, the teenager soon begins to question the entire premise of their society.

After their father leaves, two young brothers struggle to remain allies when one of them is bullied and accused of being gay.

A boy feels isolated from his group of friends and targets his rage towards the most popular of them all. When he realizes the extent of the influence this enemy wields, he is forced to come to terms with the hopelessness of his situation.

A group of boys is lured into a sewer by their classmate where mind tricks and riddles await them in the damp darkness.

A teenager spends the summer dealing with the unsettling company of two older boys. As he spends time dating girls, he becomes increasingly uncertain about what he truly wants in life.

Four teenage boys escape the Brooklyn summertime heat at their local swimming pool. After their swim, the boys are ravenous, and they imagine all the foods they'd like to eat.

A boy wonders who his real friends are.