| Section Title | StoryTitle | Plot |
|---|
| Fluffers | "Ideation" | A third-person narration of an unnamed older woman referred to only as “she” and a girl who lives with her boyfriend and mother in the apartment below the older woman, referred to as “the girlfriend.” The older woman, who used to be a sex worker and murdered a man, semi-sexually examines the girlfriend living in an abusive relationship. |
| "Who's Afraid of a Funeral Pyre" | Meg and her friends Jodi and Blake that live in an apartment building where an old man passed, and his former apartment is being cleaned. |
| "Joan Jumps into the Sea" | The shortest story in the collection: a narrator intentionally gets inside the body of a blue whale and swims inside its veins to its heart to find a person referred to as “you.” |
| "Brittanies" | A man talks to the audience as his girlfriend in the style of an oversharing conversation. The narrator retells a story with a friend called “Meatsack” getting a call from Brittany Siebens from a strange address. The narrator and Meatsack find Brittany in an apartment with her abusive boyfriend. |
| Yuri | "Cat World" | A girl is in an AOL chatroom for people pretending to be catboys and catgirls. In real life, she is love with her friend Mikaela but she has a boyfriend Mason, and the narrator has a boyfriend Shawn. She is around 15 years old and her friends push her to do illicit substances and sexual actions, along with ExxonMobil6, a chat room user who demands sexual pictures from her. |
| "Nudes" | A woman is disconnected to her girlfriend Michelle after she cannot change her alcoholism. She projects sexual fantasies on a next-door neighbor after seeing him masturbate. |
| "Grace" | A woman describes the emergence of spiders in her house and the anxiety brought by their presence and recollection of her ex-husband. |
| "Dead to Me" | New mother Lyla is in a year-long marriage with Logan, the working husband who’s suicidal, and caring for an 8-month-old baby. Another couple they know, Mandy and Cruz invite them to drink and Mandy kisses the narrator. |
| Pukkaki | "Define Hungry" | A woman and her husband Erik are in struggling debt while dangerously close to being unable to pay utilities. There is no designated food fund. The woman instead steals from self-checkout using a fake pregnancy belly. |
| "Thank You, Lauren Greenfield" | A woman struggling with bulimia writes diary entries. She is currently going to AA meetings. She obsesses over the film Thin, directed by Lauren Greenfield, thinking about how she idolizes anorexia, and being too attached to the identity of having an eating disorder. |
| "We Are Sharp Edges Bumping Against Each Other" | A woman struggling with an eating disorder, self-harm, and codependence in a relationship, considers she may also have borderline personality disorder. |
| "Livestream" | A woman bearing a child leaves her husband to travel to a restaurant on a pit stop. She’s paid by a livestream of her purging in the restroom. |
| Moneyshot | "Off Screen I Ache" | A woman and her partner Gavin are currently filming a porno when her teeth suddenly fall out of their sockets. |
| "A Deep Well" | A woman is pregnant with her unemployed partner, whom she calls “Daddy.” She hears him shoot himself in the bathtub. |
| "Survivalist" | A woman on a return trip from a failed online connection smashes her phone. |
| "Unsolved Mysteries" | Linsey bears the weight of the thought that her husband might commit suicide. He vows not to do it, but makes considerations so she will not be convicted of murder if it happens. |
| "I Live in a World Where Men with Money Want to Take Away My Wife" | The narrator thinks of her wife, whom she calls ”E,” having an affair with a rich man called “Playboy.” |
| POV | "Summer Thighs" | The narrator watches a film of herself having sex with her ex-boyfriend in the back of a car. |
| "Charlton Heston Played John the Baptist but I Remember Him as Jesus" | The narrator reflects on their adolescence captured in photographs, considering the things they remember, don’t remember, and may be making up based on the existence of a photograph. |
| "Rifle" | Rifle is the name of a southwestern American town the narrator lives in. Her past love Luis, left town five years ago to be a professional photographer. |
| Snuff | "Deathwish 006" | A woman thinks about the possibility of dying on the way to the liquor store, on the bathroom floor, and on the highway. Her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend died in a car accident with her feet on the dashboard. The image haunts both of them. |
| "Glockjaw" | A woman named Amanda is in the hospital after an incident she cannot remember. |
| "Satanism" | The narrator is engaged and shares custody of a dog and her sister’s child when her sister is killed in an accident. They think of disposing of the dog and other hurt wildlife they don’t have the capacity to care for. |
| "Room Service" | A woman is with her husband on their wedding night in a hotel, where her husband shows her a video of a man being killed by L.A. police. |
