Frankie the fly accidentally ends up on a plane and finally achieves their lifelong dream of soaring high above the city — right up until a rolled-up newspaper intervenes.
Friedre wages an escalating battle of wills against a door that refuses to stay shut, resorting to increasingly drastic measures to defeat her wooden adversary.
A regular client visits Jerry Kolynski — psychic slug and therapist — for a 20-minute session of transcendent visions, only to be judged for it by a stranger on the street.
A journalist treks across two continents to interview Alfonso, a 3,437-year-old tortoise and the oldest known creature alive — only to find he has very little to say for himself.