After being brought to life by a strange formula, an old man's Linotype machine wrecks havoc on his small print shop in early-20th-century New York.

Ginny is dolled up by Oliver, a loose male acquaintance, to simulate friendship and help him back out of an unwanted encounter.

A man living full-time as a caveman in a historical exhibit where he isn't supposed to speak English and has to pay for his poop to be removed is pressured by his exploitative employer to report his work partner's violation of their rules, despite knowing that she needs to send her family money as desperately as he does.

A middle-aged baby nurse goes from case to case, coping with feelings of paternal grief as she "loses" the children she works with. A middle-aged baby nurse takes on a new patient, but the price she must for the joy of a new baby is dealing with the unpleasantness of the baby's family.

In a futuristic utopia where equality and nonconformity are celebrated, the social bliss is complicated when criminals attempt to access the society’s dark past.

After a global nuclear war on Earth, white man rockets over to a community of Black expatriates living on Mars and begs them to take in the remaining survivors. A Black resident convinces his town they need to prevent racism by segregating any white newcomers, but his wife implores him to think of their common humanity.

A troll punished with guarding a demonic gate under a bridge in Alabama shows unexpected kindness to a homeless family, earning redemption from his past sins when the family turns out to be supernatural beings in disguise.

On a planet far from Earth where people move so that they can change their bodies, discrimination against genetically engineered individuals pushes a woman to reexamine an old friendship and her dream of being a mother.