When awkward teen Joey discovers that Shannon, the girl he is obsessed with, isn't actually a girl, he is forced to come to terms with his own definitions of gender, sexuality, and friendship.
Twelve-year-old "Kid" has been the primary caregiver of "step-father," Pal, severely disabled in a motorcycle accident. A visit from a classmate illuminates just how precarious this unconventional relationship is.
When triggered by a challenge from her peers, the daughter of a former military interrogator puts her father's inhumane lessons to the test, endangering her friends in order to protect herself.
Endowed with the uncontrollable ability to shatter glass with her touch, Grace is sent away to a facility where she meets Phillip. His presence "cures" her of her affliction, but who is to say what is a disability and what is a superpower?
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." -WB Yeats, The Second Coming. An encounter with an outspoken racist takes the narrator back to 1984 when he had a similar encounter as a child.
A series of micro shorts. In "Papa," a little girl makes a doll out of her dead grandfather's clothes only to have the doll stolen. In "Eyes," two teens flirt by transferring markered eyes from one set of fingertips to the other.
In this anthropomorphic allegory, three predators and their prey are brought together for a summit on predator/prey relations. Can peace be achieved? Will Lion embrace Gazelle? Can Polar Bear resist eating Seal? Is Pelican doomed to be consumed by Crocodile?
