Mick Travis

A woman recounts the greatest tragedy of her life to a stranger

An imagined plague diary

Grieving widows, a detective, an errand boy, and more vie to be the one to kill a gambler.

There is a vampire who has been quietly stalking the streets of New York City for a hundred years. When she saves a young woman from being sexually assaulted on the stairwell of her building, she has cause to reminisce on a life spent in shadows, fearing the daylight and everyone who walks in it.

A ghost realizes her ex-boyfriend can see her as she languishes in the afterlife.

What it feels like to be left behind.

Not long ago the people of an unnamed country were involved in a civil war. After the armistice, both sides noticed hundreds of bodies unaccounted for. Looking through their land, there was discovered a place where men would vanish from sight. Those who returned spoke of a zone governed by cruel logic. This place, dubbed The Ulterior, was closed off and a guard was placed at its entry. The curious have found their way to its borders believing it holds healing properties and that it can reunite the living and the dead.

A depressed filmmaker takes on a new project that might help him break into the mainstream or drive him further into despair and reclusivity.

Two girls on a car trip can't speak about the traumatic event that ties them together.

A riff on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, examining the passions that have anchored love stories for centuries. Jane loved Roderick, until they slept together and she learned he'd been keeping his long-term relationship a secret. Now she is nagged by questions: Why did he wrong her? Who is this other woman? What happened to the seemingly sweet man she fell for? How does infidelity still happen? She finds him and confronts him without malice or spite, attempting to make the self-identified "nice guy" explain his chauvinistic behavior.

A young woman's life flashes before her eyes as she succumbs to an asthma attack.

Two soldiers lost behind enemy lines reminisce about their lives before war stole their identities.

A woman relives the worst night of her life in a house full of ghosts.