Souls on Display

In an alternate reality where souls are physical objects, a young boy faces the music after accidentally shattering his neighbor's soul while playing road hockey; in a steampunk Victorian age, a mechanical elephant gains consciousness in order to find its way home again; in a widower's garden, a fallen angel plays He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not while plucking feathers from her wings as if they were petals from a flower.

By turns both hopeful and dark, both whimsical and woeful, the fourteen st...