"Beginnings are rare and fleeting. All we are left with in life is a long and unavoidable journey to the end. Describe the burdens you carry with you on this journey." I sent the above prompt to friends and colleagues and asked for any artistic response. I received numerous poems, songs, short stories, etc. I took all of the responses and stitched together the verses, stories, and emotions into a narrative following the protagonist through a day in his life. My goal was to give a snapshot of the mental health of those around me and remind everyone that they are not alone in their sadness.

Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tri...

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A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

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George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, dec...

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydr...

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Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyd...

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A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow hi...

Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inex...

Amidst his dull and tiring life, high school student Noah finds an escape when his dreams begin to c...

A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-...