original perspective
— A child traces the day from morning cheer through sunset to a dark night where drops fall outside and nothing returns.
— A cat narrates its elaborate escape from being taken to the vet, until it accidentally speaks English and shocks its humans into submission.
— A meditation on poetry's elusive nature through metaphors of spiderwebs in sunlight, chaos on paper, and the universe writing, ending with deliberate uncertainty.
— Lonely Athena, tired of being mocked by the other gods, invents humans to worship her wisdom, then cleverly trades each god's modifications for respect and power.
— A teen traces identity through three places — Ireland's moody skies and rocky beaches, England's hard books and rock music, and California's eternal summer — finding home in the scattered...
— A woman sits alone in an automat, invisible to others, as her hair whispers conflicting advice and laughing people demand she smile.
— A woman falls through collapsing stairs, her body fragmenting into surreal objects—banjo, Picasso painting, brooms—while she prays not to be seen or painted.
— A stone travels through the world, shrinking from road to boot to child's hand, until it becomes a skipping stone dancing across water.
— A zoo visitor observes how elephant shrews, overshadowed by elephants, still find their way into visitors' memories and diaries despite their smallness.
— During extreme seasons—windy spring, scorching summer, cool fall, freezing winter—various animals struggle with weather challenges while their companions offer practical solutions they refuse.