In a hotel room in Tokyo, a wife finds her husband bleeding to death after an earthquake. As this horrible man bleeds on the floor, she debates whether to save him or let him die. On a small island off Nagasaki, a writer makes his way through a town that is slowly fading away. A man finds that his shortcut to work has created a love affair that is causing him to slowly unravel. In a small town in South Florida, a young orphan decides to leave the monsters in his home for the monsters in the wilderness. What are these stories and essays? Something revolutionary or something to stem the diminishing?