A man and his elderly, mentally-ill mother battle for control of their home's thermostat in a future climate of extremely high temperatures year-round.

An English professor in Georgia becomes obsessed with dogs after a Great Dane wanders into his classroom. Fueled by insomnia and an aneurysm, he embarks on journeys into the past and future in his own life and the lives of various dogs he has known.

A genius mathematician in India struggles to define infinity and maintain friendships despite the dangers posed by rising tensions between Muslims and Hindus.

While waiting for an unrequited love to return, an elderly woman ruminates on her role in discovering an elegant alien technology. She feels death approaching and regrets not seeing her love again before she passes—only for him to arrive in the nick of time.

A young man gets a job working the graveyard shift at a local burger place and realizes that several of the costumers who come at night are from parallel universes. He plots to escape his world and travel across all the other universes, but there's a catch—once he leaves his home universe, he can never go back.