Short Stories: In these stories, readers encounter a wizened, silent child; a documentary filmmaker lost in the Amazon; a writer physically overwhelmed by the amount of content she has generated; the disappearance of the world's cats; and an enormous houseplant that has become quietly malevolent.

Fishmaker -- Adored, or red -- BB & Calla Lily -- Three stories about my mother -- From documentary filmmaker Jurgen Grossbinger's journal -- At the center of the wasp -- Story -- Jay -- The slow man -- Rico -- Choo & cream -- Since the cats all vanished -- 7 touches of music -- Air -- The end of history -- I carried my coma -- Surrogate -- Cell fish -- The art teacher -- Every day an epic -- 4 stories -- Sag: a saga.