A college student and his former dissertain advisor use their knowledge of anthropology to survive the zombie apocalypse and theorize about the evolution of humans and zombies.

After a tense dinner party at a wealthier family's house, a young girl and her family get into a car accident that sets the girl's life on a dark and magical trajectory. Once she grows older, she sets out on a road trip with hopes to leave her haunting past behind and start anew elsewhere.

When a married couple finds an abandoned puppy in their front yard, their imperfect relationship and perceptions of self are disrupted.

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 young woman struggles to reenter her life after she returns from the Fae world: everywhere she looks, she sees signs of them and the pain they cause. Eventually she must decide whether to rejoin them or to stay where she is in Seattle.

A monstrous girl is helped by her mother to lure people in so that she can eat them. After her mother dies, she must take on the responsibility herself, but is met by another woman who turns the tables on her.

A cursed man and others like him struggle to be accepted by their village, but as they maneuver to gain their community's favor, they discover something important about their condition which shifts their perspectives.