Pure Imagination

An unpopular girl attempts to win Show and Tell, an obese supermarket bagger wallows in the shadow of his famous brother, and a seven year old is abandoned by his Mother in the Repository for Unwanted Infants.

A Driver's Ed instructor from the Bone 'n Gristle District takes affluent kids driving through Jesustown, human mannequins endure innumerable indignities at a failing department store, and a cloud watching enthusiast battles depression.

The World's Greatest Lover holds court at a dive bar, a lady-in-waiting dissuades a knight from slaying dragons for her, and other awkward interactions between the sexes.

A museum curator guides visitors through exhibits detailing his failed romantic relationships, a woman falls in and out of love with a menu writer, and a high school student becomes enamored with a local musician who only knows one song.

Advertisers make questionable product claims for Auxiliary Morale Boosting Reengagement Rings and Six Speed Oscillating Toothbrushes, among others, and trouble ensues when a vending machine only dispenses root beer to the pure of heart.

How to dress for success, how to play better golf, and the loneliness of the octagonal pizza deliveryman.

The Playboy of Assembly Line Three, the Numbers Department, and more stories of love in the time of Avian Flu.

An embattled cemetery caretaker struggles to appease the living and the dead.

The son of a woman obsessed with the Kennedy family leaves home to join a traveling carnival.

An astronaut leaves his beloved space station to fight real estate development in outer space.

A year in the life of three students attending the U.S.S. Dubuque High School, embedded in a functioning nuclear attack submarine.

Three Midwesterners stumble through the Miami fashion scene and the Wisconsin Miss Teen Dairy Pageant.

A lifeguard is hired as a pool cleaner by an eccentric, licentious older woman.

A recently married couple adopts a highway, an awkward introvert works as a professional dater, and a young man receives a Russian mail order bride as a birthday present.

An insurance adjuster allergic to the human touch loathes his coworkers and trains to break the world record for holding one's breath underwater.

Three first year teachers in Topeka, Kansas are ordered by law to teach intelligent design in conjunction with evolutionary theory.

A recent high school graduate hired by the same school he once attended finds solace from his daily grind in the nurse's office and an out of the way service elevator.

Two stories set in small Wisconsin towns: a former Olympic pairs figure skater works as a carhop on rollerskates at a retro 50's diner, and a young man works for a maze company.

A police officer lives his fantasy of being a cowboy, a millionaire abandons his mansion for the life of a hunter-gatherer, and a Mississippi high school girl dreams of marrying the Prince of Denmark.

An aging TV weatherman struggles to appeal to the youth demographic, a married man secretly lusts after the eleven inch tall wife of a casual acquaintance, and the lawns of a small Midwestern town are plagued with mysterious holes.