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Ode to a Drug Dealer
A husband and father suffering from opiate withdrawal embarks on a desperate cross-suburbia odyssey to meet his drug dealer and hopefully gain relief from his suffering.
The 4:45
A teenage girl is sole witness to a suicide in her home town and risks losing her friends as she seeks answers and, hopefully, closure.
The Doctor and the Woodcock
A tireless surgeon and a migrating woodcock exist on different planes, but a late winter nor'easter draws them to the same fate in a Mid Atlantic suburb.
Formica
As a man cleans out the house he grew up in, he makes a discovery that draws him back to his childhood, where he faces the turning points in his life that shaped the man he grew up to be.
The Winner
An office worker wins the lottery but discovers that in return he owes something that money can't buy.
Baggage
A father and devoted husband with a talent for helping people with their emotional baggage is faced with humanity's propensity to worry.
A.I. Animus
Two hikers seek shelter from a storm inside an A.I. data center but when strange things begin to happen they wish they were back outside facing the storm.
