Left conquered and disappointed from her past relationship, a girl addresses her selfish lover who had sexually used her. The girl compares the boy to a vampire and speaks about how he has left her like an empty shell craving love and blood just like he was when he first approached her.

A Native American woman reminisces on the story her great-grandfather would tell about running away with her great-grandmother. The woman draws parallels between the story and her own first love.

When a mother takes her children to buy a puppy from another mother, she finds an unsettling household and a child chained like a dog in the backyard. Through their alternating narratives, both mothers reflect on what it means to love your children.

A young woman from a strict household heads off to a countryside home with an older man where she falls for the freedom of being out late at night, being romanced. However, she is forced to return home the real fun begins, dreaming of what the night could have been instead.

A lonely maiden is constantly reminded of her single status, working as an advertiser for a baby bed in New York. Seeking to make something of herself, she takes on both work and love with a passion, but only succeeds in one.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

A widowed woman reminisces on her childhood crush and longs to reunite with him but feels uncertain about her decision.

After several years asleep, a woman wakes up to find her husband kissing her, though she now must face his abusive ways.

In this tragic romance, an American woman and a Shetland man fall in a deep and impassioned love after his cat flies into her in a wind storm.

A Black woman reflects on her experiences as a slave on a plantation, where she not only witnessed but also committed inconceivable violence.