The Visionary

A blind painter is dismissed by the art world as being inherently incapable of participating, when he strives to convey the sense of sightlessness to the sighted. The people that do support him primarily do so for fraudulent reasons; they just want to seem accepting without actually internalizing his goals. Worse, insecurities caused by his phony supporters causes him to doubt himself, and since he can’t see, he struggles to confirm his self-worth.

Alone Together

Singleton is a man with a bizarre crisis. He’s deeply sexually attracted to being alone. Which is not to say that he’s impotent, but rather, he’s more aroused by solitude than he is by personal contact. Of course, women he attempts to become involved with judge his bizarre method of wanting extreme isolation immediately prior to, or intermittently throughout sex. He invents an imaginary friend to satisfy both of his needs simultaneously, but things get awkward when he realizes that she isn’t imaginary. She’s been pretending.

The Flower of One

Florence is an anti-social florist who seeks to grow self-sustaining flowers and thus eliminate the need for her coworkers. The biological difficulties are not easily surmounted. Initially customers don’t want self-sustaining flowers, because caring for the flowers is one of the therapeutic benefits of having them in the first place. Then no one will buy them, largely because they aren’t attractive. Once Florence succeeds, people become impressed by her and they are nicer to her so she wants them around more. But the flowers have grown to view her as a mother figure and will jealously defend her against the threat they perceive in the form of other people’s involvement with her.