A Los Angeles speech pathologist is assigned to the case of a presumably mentally-ill woman who speaks in gibberish that turns out to be Old English. When the woman disappears, deciphering her mysterious writing leads the pathologist to wonder if she has stumbled across a time traveler.

Mourning her beloved father's death, a young girl takes a vow of silence to spite her cruel and adulterous mother. After her mother begins yet another affair, the girl comes up with a plan to expose her and do right by her father's memory.

A New Yorker working at a salon spends her time observing people she meets on the subway and at work. Though she meets a lot of people between washing hair and riding the subway to and from work, she avoids talking to them except for the rare occasions when she has to.

A young couple obsessed with syntax sets off to meet their favorite author.

Searching for a muse to inspire a novel he is attempting to write, an author in San Francisco finds his passions ignited by something much more sinister.

In a small, American, Southern town shortly after the civil war, a deputy and a nurse investigate the murder of a businessman from Michigan. The murderer turns out to be someone they'd never have expected.

While narrating a story, a woman suppresses some details while highlighting others, to expose the injustice she witnesses in her neighbor's irresponsible behavior.

A man walks with a writer around London who tells him about the novel he wrote that was lost which can never be matched in beauty by any other.

A young woman makes a detour on her way home to visit a man she met on a train. Though the man is married, the woman hopes to rekindle the spark she felt during the train-ride.

A man reflects on the past week while an unexpected storm rages outside, and he compares the events that follow with the fall of the Roman Empire.