Storie Sovany is used to being dismissed as the fat friend, until she moves from New York City to rural Ohio for college and the charming frat boy Liam Alexander approaches her. Torn between disbelief and flattery, Storie hopes her luck may have finally changed - but is it too good to be true? [author's note: this is not a romance!]

The life through the eyes of an unfortunate man is colorless. As the days pass on, he finds pleasure in less and less things around him, until he can no longer feel emotions. Will he spend the rest of his life like a senseless puppet? A short story about finding what it means to be a human.