In a future Los Angeles burdened by overpopulation, a twelve-year-old boy hires an alien assassin to kill the man forcing an abortion on his mother.

In a future where population control measures are stringent, a mother struggles with her feelings for her artificial son, David, who is designed to love.

A desperate young woman in a dystopian New York City pleads for a miracle to the Saint of Sidewalks and wakes up the next day a saint herself.

In a distant dystopian society, a woman is selected by a lottery system to undergo a trial that will determine if she is productive enough to add a number to the population.