December 2023

• Being Wrong: Donna leaves a good, but loveless marriage, for a carpenter.

• The Children of Conscious Reunion: A notary has second doubts when her first client wants to transfer her house to the enigmatic figurehead, of a cult.

• The Pill: Marlee realizes how much her life has foolishly revolved around men.

• Yellow Is the Color of Choices: 14-year-old Megan tell her father she’s pregnant.

• Whose Life is It: Danny’s 70-year-old sister sends him a letter saying goodbye.

November 2023

• Last Rights: Death comes for a disbelieving philosopher.

• Drag Brunch: Hannah's gay friend is excluded from her bachelorette party.

• The Walnut Tree: A travel tour in Uzbekistan gets sidetracked to wonderful effect.

• Heros: Religious fundamentalists take over Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.

• The Competitive Edge: An insurance company's race-based underwriting is called into question.

October 2023

The Scar We Bear: A convicted criminal undergoes gene therapy and gets released from a life sentence.

Form Seven Alpha: A city resident is caught breaking the law and is given the choice between one of five punishment options.

Q-Tip Options: The narrator befriends Abby and Robert, the homeless couple living by her house.

After Lincoln Hills: The narrator's son is sentenced to two years detention and lifetime registration as a sex offender.

The Color of Hope: An inner-city teacher has her first African-American, Muslim, student.

September 2023

• The Tennis Bracelet: A couple on a foreign vacation accidently steal a diamond.

• Midsummer's Night: A student overdoses at an elite school and Niki knows the reluctant dealer.

• Six Dart Out: Death gives a struggling bar owner a chance to spare his own life.

• The Pool: A good-willed apartment complex owner deals with ever-complaining tenants as she attempts community improvements.

• Recapturing The Spark: A married couple go on separate dates while texting each other.

August 2023

• Three Blocks: The narrator sees her face on the body of those she passes on the street in need.

• Euthanasia: In a dystopian future, Hank works on a farm for the euthanizing of sick, unwanted, or abandoned animals.

• Cicada: Dr. Zhang invents teleportation but refuses to share it with the world.

• Intervention: Bill has decided it’s time to confront his brother about his obesity.

• Tempus Fugit: An aging woman must decide if she wants to give, or steal, additional years from others.

July 2023

• Conveyor: Arthur Montague is on trial for genocide and war crimes...again, and again, for eternity.

• The Things We Give: Martha sells years off the end of her life to help her mother and make ends meet.

• The Greater Good: A court is asked to rule on erasing a convicted criminal from ever having existed.

• The Free Will of Professor Sturmhauser: A depressed philosophy professor is a deep believer in the lack of free will.

• Leave A Message: The instigator of a relationship breakup keeps calling his ex, but should he?

June 2023

• To Light A Flame: A higher species is tasked with reviewing every possible timeline and placing each human's consciousness in their happiest version.

• Ding, Ding, Ding!: Simulated evil and good AI personalities are run through tests to determine if they are safe for humanity's future.

• Hard Metal: A courthouse security guard is put in charge of escorting the grief-stricken mother in a murder case.

• The After: A repentant veteran attempts to apologize to the family for causing their child's death.

• The Hanging Man: Patrons ignore a dead homeless man hanging in the corner of a posh art gallery opening.

May 2023

• Moist: The narrator's houseplants are inexplicably being watered, which causes her to question all of reality.

• The Draft: Society forces all babies to born, but creates a lottery system requiring all men to care for the offspring.

• Never Enough (Until You Earn It): Two African refugees make their way to Europe and are provided "basic income."

• Final Determination: A murder victim is waiting in the afterlife and is given the chance to decide to the eternal fate of her recently deceased killer.

• More: A cheating husband's mistress discovers he is married and forces him to tell his wife about their relationship.

April 2023

• Thorn: A local builder comes across an upstart carpenter in a neighboring village that he believes threatens his business.

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Reincarnation: A gay couple, and a trans couple, get together for drinks and try to figure out what it means to be a man/woman.

• The House of God: A mother takes her sick child to church, and is forced to answer her son's questions about the omnipotence.

• Visions of Midwives: A midwife in training learns the midwife secret, that at the moment of birth each midwife is able to see the future of the newly born child.

• Playing God: Jack is abducted by the Zoomarians who ask him to play God, and fix the moral failings of humanity.

March 2023

• Child's Play: A middle-school bully blackmailing the other school kids is caught, and severely punished.

• Glad All Over: An elderly man helps his fellow season-ticket holder with his existential crisis with philosophy lessons.

• Understanding Ice Cream: Professor Gault meets a mysterious stranger that causes him to question the underlying causes of political polarization.

• Dublin Area Rowdy Teens: An Englishman stands up to a group of rowdy teens and gets hate from his fellow passenger as thanks.

• Some Kind of Justice: A factory manager assaults his employee, who later discovers she is a donor match for his child.

February 2023

• M.I.N.D. Your Marriage: A newlywed realizes her husband has planted a memory reading device into her brain to "protect their marriage."

• The Causes of the First World War: A gay romance causes a downward spiral for one partner, and questions of ethics and responsibility for the other.

• Trick or Treat: A chance find at closing nik nak shop causes its buyer windfall profits.

• Jerry's World: Jerry has a wonderful life, and is pretty sure the world revolves around him.

• Momentary Paradise: The narrator watches a late-night movie that makes her question what moment in her life would be her personal framework for heaven.

January 2023

• Pulling Up Azaleas: A cheating husband in a failed marriage blames his wife for the gun pointed at him.

• One Hour: A journalist interviews the owner of a strange restaurant and has a meal that causes him to question his life.

• The Chair of Opportunity: The aging owner of a mega-corporation offers to switch bodies forever with one of his employees.

• The Worst Thing You Can Do is Nothing: A cold war officer is faced with attack warnings that may signal World War III.

• People Like Ants: A husband mistakenly tells his daughter that all life is precious, including the increasing number of ants she is inviting into the house.