Pure Imagination

The clones of a star athlete, Abraham Lincoln, and a young boy crushed by a model of a blue whale relate the difficulties of being genetic copies.

The young child of divorced parents copes as his mom moves in with her doubles tennis partner and his dad purchases a marital robot.

An aging TV weatherman struggles to appeal to the youth demographic, a married man secretly lusts after the eleven inch tall wife of a casual acquaintance, and the lawns of a small Midwestern town are plagued with mysterious holes.

A police officer lives his fantasy of being a cowboy, a millionaire abandons his mansion for the life of a hunter-gatherer, and a Mississippi high school girl dreams of marrying the Prince of Denmark.

Two stories set in small Wisconsin towns: a former Olympic pairs figure skater works as a carhop on rollerskates at a retro 50's diner, and a young man works for a maze company.

A recent high school graduate hired by the same school he once attended finds solace from his daily grind in the nurse's office and an out of the way service elevator.

Three first year teachers in Topeka, Kansas are ordered by law to teach intelligent design in conjunction with evolutionary theory.

An insurance adjuster allergic to the human touch loathes his coworkers and trains to break the world record for holding one's breath underwater.

A recently married couple adopts a highway, an awkward introvert works as a professional dater, and a young man receives a Russian mail order bride as a birthday present.

A lifeguard is hired as a pool cleaner by an eccentric, licentious older woman.