A middle-aged man recalls a strange camping trip he took with his father many years ago.

A boy living in poverty in Louisiana needs a winter coat, but can't afford one because his father is too afraid to work.

A U.S. squadron deployed in Afghanistan during the War on Terror is followed by a mysterious Afghan boy with a personal connection to one of the soldiers.

A farm boy kills a female snake, protecting her babies. He later learns that there are consequences for his actions.

A sixteen-year-old girl in Civil-War-era New Orleans is friends with God, but He leaves her when she is forced to marry a man whom she fears.

A man who sponsors his cousin’s immigration to America struggles to protect his daughter from the hard truths of his relative’s experience in Nazi concentration camps.

A very pregnant female-identifying being must go into the war-torn mountains to find her breath-sibling, so that his presence during her birth may prevent the baby from being a stillborn.

A young Armenian boy in California is confronted with the fact that the world is changing and he is growing up when he and his brother break the wheel of their bicycle because they have gotten too big for it.

A Kansas man who believes that God lives in all young children for a time recalls to a companion the exact moment that God left him. As a boy, he befriends a woman who the town believes is a witch, but when the town turns on her, he joins the mob instead of defending her.

A writer uses his relationship with a mysterious woman as inspiration for his magical realism story. But, things go awry when he begins to question their compatibility.