A teacher finds herself entangled in the life of a mesmerising student, only to learn that everything he told her about himself was a lie.

In an epistolary-like work, a father must choose between a job he loves and his relationship with his son.

An aspiring artist goes to work for a businessman, hoping he can earn enough to follow his dream. Instead, he is forced to learn that dreams are not as important to the world as money.

A creative writing teacher sits through a conference with one his favorite students. He takes us on a journey through the characters in the story, and in his life.

A first-generation college student, hours from graduating, dreads leaving school and her faculty mentor for the "real world" and her traditional, Eastern European parents.

A twenty-two-year-old male tutor gives various women feedback on their writing in letter form. When he quits his job, he visits one of his former correspondents for lunch at her apartment.

A professor in an unhappy marriage obsesses over and fantasizes about a much younger student, imagining how he will age.

A student befriends his roommate, Carter, but his loyalty falls short when the headmaster accuses him of a scandalous act committed by Carter.

A young writer attends a writer's workshop where she begins a relationship with an author whose books she loves. But after they move in together, she finds that his life begins to suffuse every aspect of hers.

A young boy born into slavery meets a newly purchased slave from Africa who refuses to let go of his culture, despite the master's attempts to christianize him.