What a Whopper

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Gabriel is a young, aspiring musical composer whose life seems stuck in the First Act. When his new musical number gets a critical reception, a...

A womanizing opera star is smitten by a young music student.

A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during...

A depressed therapist hires a writer to edit his suicide note before unexpectedly discovering something.

When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday...

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul...

In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley...

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.