Rachel

A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.

Twentysomething Brooklynites Mara and Jo have been close friends since middle school. Gradually, it becomes apparent that the increasingly unstable Jo has troubles that may be the result of substance abuse, or an even deeper problem. Over the course of a decade, the more stable Mara tries to help.

A man takes his life and is reincarnated as a bridge.

A woman recounts the greatest tragedy of her life to a stranger

Two soldiers lost behind enemy lines reminisce about their lives before war stole their identities.

A young woman's life flashes before her eyes as she succumbs to an asthma attack.

A grad student's confounding holiday week

An essay on the end of the world

A woman relives the worst night of her life in a house full of ghosts.

There is a vampire who has been quietly stalking the streets of New York City for a hundred years. When she saves a young woman from being sexually assaulted on the stairwell of her building, she has cause to reminisce on a life spent in shadows, fearing the daylight and everyone who walks in it.

A riff on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, examining the passions that have anchored love stories for centuries. Jane loved Roderick, until they slept together and she learned he'd been keeping his long-term relationship a secret. Now she is nagged by questions: Why did he wrong her? Who is this other woman? What happened to the seemingly sweet man she fell for? How does infidelity still happen? She finds him and confronts him without malice or spite, attempting to make the self-identified "nice guy" explain his chauvinistic behavior.

A woman goes hunting night after night, looking for someone, anyone, to satisfy her hunger in an alienating urban landscape.

Shane, a hustler-turned-blackmailer, has an encounter with an extra-terrestrial. It imprints on him, reads his thoughts and begins assaulting the people he's angry with, leaving a trail of bodies and trauma in its wake.

An incomplete document of a music scene

In the near future plays are staged that feature live murder on stage. Adam Morris, a young struggling actor, has just taken the lead in one. His co-star, Noelle, wants to know why.

A conversation about sex and death winds its way between six college kids.