The night watchman at the wax museum is a simple man, and he loves his job, especially the wax figure of Napoleon, whom he considers a special friend. Though a bachelor, he is a romantic, and gets caught up in the affairs of a young couple who use the wax museum as their meeting place.

In the distant future, a female steward aboard a ship traveling through space attempts to save the lives of the crew members who ostracized her.

A story is on trial for falsely claiming to be science fiction in a satirical 1940’s London courtroom.

Disturbed by a past sexual assault on his wife, a man struggles through the day. His wife, however, turns hysterical and tells him not to act on it for the sake of their reputation.

A man slowly goes insane when he suspects that his neighbor knows his deepest secret.

A delusional ruler puts the sun on trial to convince his people that the world is in an ice age, when it is actually unbearably hot. When a child's grandfather is forced to defend the sun, he is punished for revealing the truth.

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.

An Italian immigrant has been renting a space, but the rentee has never paid him back. After a couple of months, the Italian immigrant wants the money owed to him; unfortunately, he never kept any records, and the man claims he paid.