A man tries to determine the cost of a passionate but brief love affair, and his calculations lead him to a solemn but hopeful realization.

A teenage girl mourns the loss of her beloved girlfriend to cancer as she begins a relationship with another girl who she realizes is no substitute.

One year out from a chaotic relationship, a woman reflects on her former lover. When she receives a surprise missive from him, it dredges up lingering feelings.

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.

In a world where there is no smell, taste, pain, death, or digestion, the people are left hungering for one thing: love.

A writer gives an account of his friend Dr. Tokai, a kind and sophisticated plastic surgeon who died after his first real heartbreak.

A man visits his girlfriend in the countryside and begins to realize that she loves someone else.

A writer uses his relationship with a mysterious woman as inspiration for his magical realism story. But, things go awry when he begins to question their compatibility.

A privileged young woman from New England falls in love with a practical Midwesterner, but can their love withstand the grief of losing a child?

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.