When a new teacher arrives at school he finds students that are extremely well behaved and soon uncovers a special class of very young children forming a hive mind, keeping the students and teachers calm and focused with murderous results.

A musician who has just completed her first soundtrack to a Hollywood feature finds her personal life getting complicated.

The first wave of an alien invasion coincides with a New Years Eve party in a Welsh valley.

A wanna-be author feels pressured to move beyond her meandering writing career and get a more stable job. She decides to organize a Shakespeare festival, a plan that could have tricky ramifications for her marriage.

Paranoia sets in as the Black Death strikes European villagers in the 14th century.