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of Pears
Taste of Pears
A technician on a sinking deep-sea submersible frantically fights a jammed engine. As the hull groans toward crush depth, the captain forces him to abandon the controls and make a quiet, bizarre final choice before the ocean takes them.
Mortal Souls
An ancient conqueror's post-mortem on his own defeat told from inside the wreckage he left behind. A demon lord who reshaped humanity and lost catalogues what broke his empire, moving through the lives of the people his invasion made, one after another, searching for the answer to the question that humiliates him most: how do you lose to something that refuses to stop dying?
Henderson
Somewhat Henderson
A wounded soldier falls off a mountain and lands in an office. Everyone assumes he works there. He plays along until the morphine runs out.