First
There is a iota of doubt whether our memory is in the brain or it is outside of us and where our brain is nothing but the sensor to retrieve it from the universal storage in the form of memory..
Levo who steals the memory of Mrs. Alma because her husband knows the secret of a fossil and Levo accesses her memory through her cartridge and discovers the treasure. The story is just a layer but the truth behind the layer is how our memory works and how we can re-paste through cartridges the forgotten memory, and
how there is enough risk for someone to see and steal our hidden secrets.

Second
How Imogene and Herb, who never gave a thought of having a child and one fine day they work to have a child, how tough it is to materialize your dream.
We humans always use condoms but our body never knows about contraceptives but it behaves truly in a natural way to get pregnant. But because of condoms the whole process is a fake, your brain knows but not your body, and slowly your body will come to know that using enough energy to replace your healthy eggs and semen’s was totally useless and move that energy for better usage.
The day you decide to have a baby the body takes revenge coz it has moved your energy too far to bring it back and you go through hell lot of process and feel sorry for your useless birth. The Herb and Imofene undergo immense pressure to reverse their fertility.,

Third
What happens when a proposal of dam construction is brought in by the government and how it decimates the surrounding village and villagers. The seed collector and her son interacted more often like a common villager and a bureaucrat. How the seed collector sees in front of her eyes the whole village gets emptied and how it loses its virginity in the hands of the government .

Fourth
Allison moves to Lithuania with cancer but he believes he has seen a long disappeared species fish Sturgeon in river Nemunas. But his grandpa never believes and one fine day they caught a huge sturgeon fish and they were amazed to feel their myth become real.

Fifth
A story about a woman Esther and her grandson Robert. Esther who fallen sick of depression of Holocaust victim, though she escaped but cannot forget what happened to her dozen of friends, especially Miriam. One more holocaust story but not boring..

Author never disappoints you because the style of writing is immaculate..