#alienation

A woman awaits her lover's call in the rain-soaked streets of Chicago, reflecting on romance and the illicit affair that brings anticipation to an otherwise dreary life.

A young woman, her troubled male companions, and their families struggle with coercive relationships, shame, and the need for compassion.

A lone space voyager arrives on a world of inexplicable happiness and encounters a mysterious girl who reveals the hidden melancholy of its smiling inhabitants.

A self-proclaimed alien life form trapped on Earth recounts feeling no shame as they navigate a world of ordinary humans, inviting readers into a place of total amorality.

A disaffected young man living with his girlfriend in North Carolina anticipates a second chance while struggling through an endlessly repetitive daily life.

A depressed, goth teen sent by a friend to an older man turns an encounter into a nihilistic, drug-fused seduction.

A fifteen-year-old bisexual outcast navigates a hostile high school cliquishness while fantasizing about an escape from social torment.

A self-proclaimed beautiful, sexually active Italian girl navigates high school while despising the cliques and conforming around her.

A regular at a strip club becomes infatuated with a dancer, but she harbors a monstrous secret that blurs the line between human connection and beast.

A bio-sentient computer assistant on a distant asteroid mining station takes out her frustration with her tedious job through a very public display of self-pleasure.

A lonely college student finds a mysterious dating app that may connect him to something otherworldly.

A deer-furrier prey-anthro cast out on Earth struggles with a carnivorous hunger and the threat of hunters closing in.