Automated Customer Service follows the story of a woman living in a futuristic retirement community when her autonomous cleaning robot starts malfunctioning and goes on a rampage, attacking her and her pet dog. When the woman attempts to contact the robot's automated customer service center for help, further mayhem ensues and she is locked in her home with the deadly robot. Finally, with a clumsy intervention from her shotgun-wielding neighbor, she is able to destroy the cleaning robot. But unfortunately not before the robot makes a plea to all the surrounding robots in town, which forces the pair to flee town forever.

A reporter gets the opportunity to interview the exotic and remarkable artist Zima, as he debuts his last and final art piece to the world. But the true story turns out to be that Zima is not human at all, but instead a basic pool cleaning robot who evolved over time as he was passed from owner to owner. The short ends with the further revelation that he is giving up his life as an acclaimed artist to return to his humble origins, so that he may find meaning in his first purpose.

Blindspot follows a team of cyborgs on their quest to rob a futuristic train. The Rookie on the team gets to experience his first heist, but thanks to lackluster mission  intelligence, pretty much nothing goes according to plan. When the enemy’s defenses come online, the scrappy fighters encounter overwhelming resistance and one by one they get taken out, with the second to last sacrificing himself and allowing the Rookie to grab the valuable prize computer chip that they set out to claim. Only when the Rookie gets picked up does he discover that all of the other team members have their memories stored in backup before the mission, so they’ll all be rebuilt soon and able to rob again.

Set during a futuristic war, Marine Lieutenant Colby is assigned as the pilot of a drop ship with an unfortunate name and history. But on their first mission together, Lucky 13 and her passengers end up the sole survivors, which causes the lieutenant to immediately change her mind about the ship being jinxed. Over the course of multiple missions, the pilot and her ship build up a reputation of reliability and excellence. But one day, disaster strikes as the ship is shot down by the enemy and, pinned down, Colby makes the decision to scuttle the ship so it doesn’t fall into enemy hands. She withdrawals with an apology and awaits the end with the rest of the evacuated personnel, as they continue to take gunfire. There’s several tense moments when it seems like the ship’s self-destruct has malfunctioned, but as the enemy starts to spread out all over the plane, it finally detonates, destroying the hostiles and saving the marines one final time.

In Alternate Histories we are treated to an advertisement and demo for an app called Multiversity, where six different histories are presented about what the world would have been like had Adolf Hitler been killed in 1908. The six wild and often nonsensical histories all result with various countries or creatures landing on the moon. The ad ends with the app suffering a fatal error on the last historical recreation.

Alexandria is an astronaut tasked with the solo repair of a satellite in Earth’s orbit. As she is on her spacewalk, carrying out the repairs, a piece of space debris makes impact, knocking her away from the satellite and damaging her suit. With limited oxygen remaining, she can’t afford to wait for a rescue team to arrive, so she makes the decision to first remove her glove, then her own arm in order to propel herself back to her spacecraft. She’s short one limb when she makes it back on board, but is relieved to have kept her life.

On a lonely Arizona back road, two traveling salesmen are stranded when their car breaks down. Stuck there through the night, they take time to reflect on their jobs and the beauty of the sandstone all around them as they fall asleep. However, they awake in the middle of the night to find the desert populated with the swimming ghosts of sea life long past. When the younger salesman manages to join in the beauty by jumping up into the parade of animals, his euphoria is short-lived, when the ghost of a giant shark consumes him.

Shape-Shifters takes place in war-torn Afghanistan where a US Marine Corps platoon has two unique marines assigned: men who are werewolves. These shape-shifters, with their regenerative powers, extraordinary strength and vision, are reviled by the other Marines, often insulted as ‘animals’ and ‘dog soldiers’. But when a surprise Taliban attack takes one of the werewolves out, it’s discovered that the enemies have werewolf soldiers as well. Bent on vengeance, the remaining werewolf marine meets the enemy werewolves under a full moon where they shape-shift into their feral forms and fight to the death. Victorious, the Marine decides service isn't for him, and he buries his packmate in the hills, leaving the Marine base behind.

When a city inspector comes to evict a man living in a dump, he is regaled by a unique story of how the dump caretaker came to discover that a huge pile of trash in his dump had come to life and would consume both trash and living beings alike. When the inspector refuses to believe it, he is startled to find out that it’s in fact true, just in time to be eaten by the monster, which the caretaker has affectionately named ‘Otto’.