A writing critic reviews the construction of Charles Chesnutt’s stories and how to write surfiction.

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

A man recalls his intimate friendship with his former English professor, who resolved to fuel his unsatisfied desire for playwriting during the time they were apart. In their reunion decades later, instead of the brilliant play he promised, the professor shows his former student a disturbing product of his mental instability.

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.

A writer struggles to craft a story and begins to lose his own sanity when an idea finally comes to him.

A writer receiving feedback from a professor on their drafts is sure that the person on the other end is a man. They wrestle with their own hidden identities until the end of their literary relationship comes with an unexpected revelation.

A mentally-ill, suicidal man writes letters to different people about prominent memories in his life from his birth onwards—some nostalgic, some thankful, some apologetic, and some confessional.

When a serial writer decides that he can’t take more of his monotonous life, he destroys his copywriter and leaves his domestic prison to protest the rise of the machines.

In the depths of his mind, a writer tries to uncover the autonomous, nefarious motivations of his own characters.

A man burdened to live in the past due to his memory condition seeks to avenge his wife by killing her murderer.