An aging writer with dementia decides not to tell his daughter about his condition. One of his characters—who is real in a parallel universe—comes to take him to a different world before he succumbs to dementia.

When a strange boy arrives in her small town of Little Nova to live with the local Hmong shaman, a young girl thinks she might finally have a friend to confide in. After the boy gets a mysterious illness and other inexplicable things start to happen around them, the girl isn't so sure the stories she was told as a child are just stories after all.

A man begins searching for another world after being told of a place he had never heard of from a friend. What he finds reveals a secret world that exists in the present-day society.

Denied from countless jobs due to accommodations requests, a neurodivergent person finally lands upon the right job for them.

A hair stylist mage travels north to support a huntress in a melee battle and gain sponsors for her college tuition, witnessing a world full of violence and the misappropriation of magic.