Jack and Gill’s 40th birthday goes off the rails when a weed-laced dinner kicks in—just as they learn a nuclear missile is en route to California. High and panicked, they must decide how to spend what could be their final night alive.
A corrupt senator arranges for the murder of his biggest liability, his erratic burnout stepdaughter, only for her to unwittingly discover her natural talent as an untouchable killer.
A shipping logistics rep named Wayne Poss becomes indebted to a drug dealer after a high-profile smuggling operation goes awry. Wayne uses his position to pay his debt by skimming Pharmaceuticals off a supply chain for a Fortune 500 Company.
Diane, a total introvert, is obsessed with lurid crime-romance paperbacks, longing for passionate, dangerous love to sweep her off her feet. One day, she gets her wish when Razor appears—a tattooed, cigarette-smoking butch who seems like she walked off the pages of one of her novels. Soon, Diane must decide whether she really wants her fantasies to become reality.
Jeannie is a dark, self-destructive, closeted 17-year-old West L.A. girl. She has to navigate school, friends, her first romance with a girl, and dealing with her bickering divorced parents. Jeannie purchases a Native American pendant to help her gain positive energy. But something goes wrong when the pendent transfers the spirits of her slain parents into her body.
A scientist creates a time machine and kills their younger self to see what would happen. And that self-obsessed, misanthropic, mad genius of a scientist is Tim Travers. And the universe was bad enough with only one of him.
It is called the Time Traveler's Paradox. In which a scientist creates a Time Machine and kills their younger self. So now a man who should not- can not- exist, somehow does. That is the Paradox, and Paradoxes are impossible.
After her fiancé leaves her before their wedding, Madeline goes to Niagara Falls to honeymoon without him. There, she reconnects with her adventurous side, learns to let go, and finds new love.
Georgie, a brazen 13-year-old, has her life uprooted when she’s thrust into the guardianship of her half-sister Harper and torn away from her life in Las Vegas. Harper sees this turbulent time as a window of opportunity to pave a brighter future for her half-sister in Los Angeles, but Harper’s self-righteous attempts to protect Georgie only lead to exposing their paralleled childhood wounds.
26-year-old Ella dreams of becoming a singer, but her overbearing Greek mother, Despina, insists she take over the gyros business and marry a Greek man. After her sudden death, Despina's larger-than-life presence refuses to fade, haunting Ella with even more unsolicited advice from beyond the grave.
Taffeta, a contemporary queer person of color, summons Abraham Lincoln to perform an elaborate historical fantasia within her own head — only to learn that she can’t hide from her own present-day demons in the shadows of someone else’s past.