An old man recalls how the death of King Kong caused him to lose someone he loved.

A writer struggles to craft a story and begins to lose his own sanity when an idea finally comes to him.

When a man known as the Unmarried Mother enters a bar in 1970s New York, he gets roped into a time travel quest bent on recovering his long-lost child and finding his old lover.

The first man to walk on Mars recounts a trip with a strange alien companion across the planet to his disbelieving crew.

On the 4th of July, a small Texas diner receives new customers from all over the nation. One family arrives to the small town in search for an old war buddy, Bill, who offered the husband a job, but the townspeople insist that Bill's work is not accepting any new workers.

Upon the death of their tyrannical mistress, three old maids venture to the place she forbade them to go and reminisce about her life.

When a notebook full of top-secret designs is looted from a Brooklyn saloon, a Latino drummer and his inventor girlfriend must go on a quest to retrieve it from a rival Manhattan gang.

Loanna asks her Iya why everyone calls her two-headed and Iya tells the story of what happened just before Loanna was born; how she bartered with the god Ajala to receive two heads instead of one.

A freed slave on an alien planet reflects on the enormous societal upheavals she witnessed and led.

A middle-aged Texan mother in Alcoholics Anonymous tells stories about her eccentric, rich neighbor instead of focusing on the miserable truth of her own addiction.