The asteroid work crews don't have much to do but tell tall tales to each other. One man tells a particularly riveting account of an expedition where he met a strange parasitic species that inhabits human bodies and barely escaped unscathed—or did he?

A wandering man comes across two food venders who hire him for the day and tell him about their lives.

Set around the 1940s, a thirteen-year-old boy pursues the purchase of a puppy he saw in a newspaper ad, and receives an unexpected sexual experience from the woman who sells him the dog.

A young man tries to impress a girl by lying about who he is and pretending to be wealthy.

A 30-year-old lesbian businesswoman goes to a strip club with the other businessmen in hopes of winning a contract, but is surprised by her connection to one of the dancers—despite her hopes of playing it cool. As she ruminates over the connection, an old friend shows up and tells her information that upends everything she thinks she knows about her life.

After his wife's death, a man struggles with his belief in God and with taking care of his young daughters as a single father. But when someone is brutally murdered in the rural countryside, the man finds both a welcome distraction in bringing justice to the killer and an unlikely ally along the way.

A teacher finds herself entangled in the life of a mesmerising student, only to learn that everything he told her about himself was a lie.

A teenage girl discovers that her father has cheated on her mother, and reveals this fact on a family vacation in Puerto Vallarta.

When a young aspiring writer takes residence with a Jewish couple, he is pressured into maintaining a façade about his potential for publishing.

An unemployed woman in a contemporary urban setting passes a slow day at home, where mundanities consume her and reality seems far away.