A depressed Black man reconnects with himself after losing the woman he loved, only to find unexpected comfort and a new connection with a male bartender.
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A writer struggles with a primal bloodlust as she cuts herself to refill her ink, confronting shame, desire, and haunting visions of love and violence.
An off-duty stripper finds unexpected comfort with a mysterious bartender in a bar far from her usual world.
An orphaned 18-year-old ranch hand falls for his older female mentor before heading off to start a new life in west Texas.
A recently widowed man mourning the loss of his wife to cancer discovers the legendary Fountain of Youth and grapples with what it means for his grief and solitude.
An 18-year-old visually impaired girl struggling with anxiety and loneliness begins her first day at a new college while questioning her own identity.
A lonely grieving woman finds quiet solace in the rhythmic motions of vintage steam trains, channeling her emotions into a gentle, solitary machine-fetish fantasy.
A teenage boy copes with his father abandoning the family and begins a sexual relationship with his young Latina mother, starting with her getting breast implants.
A wealthy, lonely woman in a luxurious penthouse seeks the missing piece in her life through an unconventional relationship with a younger goth lover.
A lonely teenage boy is approached by an older man outside an internet gaming café, beginning an unexpected encounter that may challenge his isolation.
An elderly Irish woman recounts her long life of abuse while sitting on her porch and receiving an unexpected visitor.
An 18-year-old moves to a quiet Pennsylvania town to start over and transfers to a new high school where he faces bullying and isolation.
Selena and Asmodeus finally marry as she grapples with the haunting pain of her father losing hope of ever finding her.
Shelly leaves the hospital heartbroken after Jessica's abandonment while her android caretaker Sonia watches over her.
A heartbroken man attempts to end his life just before an apocalypse strikes, only to awaken alone in a dust-covered world.
A lone cyborg survivor of an apocalyptic machine war searches for answers among the ruins while protecting the last human colony.
A grieving soldier waits for the AI's final assault on his colony, haunted by memories of his lost love Marina.
An android caretaker, mourning his lost love Marina, defends a human community from a malevolent AI while raising a princess as his own daughter and keeping a fellow widow at arm's length.
A woman traveling through time and space arrives to save a man destined to die, in a romantic sci-fi tale spanning eras.
A married woman is pushed by her lover into seeing his business associate for money, struggling with guilt and shame as she contemplates the transaction.