A white woman talks to several Negro slaves who tell her stories about their personal lives. She learns about their partners and their and families.

A man tricks a salesman into chasing buried treasure in order to purchase a new machine he wants.

A woman's obsession with her childhood reflection leads her sailor husband to gift her a full-length mirror that changes the family’s dynamics.

In a sprawling galaxy, a young girl joins her uncle's smuggling spaceship and survives a pirate attack by befriending the monstrous creature that they were transporting.

When it is discovered that the human brain is key to interstellar travel, one impoverished tradesman must decide whether to sacrifice the wonderfully wise, but ultimately artificial, eagle brain residing inside a beautiful humanoid shell or his own. A desperately poor tradesman realizes his humanoid friend, a charming artificial intelligence, is the key to faster and more lucrative interstellar travel. But to achieve this, he must pry her brain from her body and risk killing her.