Unemployed and reckless Charlie is addicted to 'zoots', drugs that cause memory deterioration, déjà-vus and delusions. He is a 'zoo-head'. Charlie is forced by his unemployment benefits advisor to attend an experimental rehabilitation program at Infinity, a memory clinic. The program involves memory looping; a zoo-head is looped into a memory of theirs when they were once sober, allowing their mind to regress to its original state and heal any damages. Charlie undergoes the procedure at...

In a kill-or-be-killed world where starvation is rife and strangers are always dangerous, The Survivalist lives off the grid, and by his wits. When a starving woman and her teenage daughter discover his forest refuge, his loneliness drives him to overcome his suspicion and strike a bargain with them in return for bed and board. But as desire becomes stronger than necessity, the exchange becomes an uneasy, ongoing arrangement which threatens not only his carefully constructed world but also his...