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.

Foster’s Fortune

An eccentric billionaire realizes that he has squandered his life amassing wealth but that he doesn’t feel satisfied. He decides to adopt the perfect family, but of course discovers that this isn’t as simple as assembling a company. The kids don’t get along. The wife doesn’t have the right emotions and he doesn’t understand how to relate to any of them in a natural way. Eventually they begin to acclimate, but the billionaire begins to suspect that his new family didn’t end up in house by accident, but rather were deliberately placed there in order to undermine his business and leech his wealth away.

The Transfer

A wealthy and successful businessman aggressively refuses to defend himself when he is accused of rape, and tries his hardest to reach a settlement that does not require medical examinations.  This eventually fails, and his close-kept truth comes out.  He is actually a woman who has functioned as a man for years, but is clearly not capable of raping a woman, at least not in the traditional sense.  Even though he is now cleared of the crime, he risks losing his career as he is surrounded by a stigma of perverseness and dishonesty.