A depressed woman drives her friends and therapist crazy, going ceaselessly on about the childhood trauma she incurred during her parents’ divorce settlings.

In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.

A graduate student, on a trip in the Sonoran Desert, contemplates quitting her PhD program and moving on with life.

An accomplished but ineffectual columnist searches for fulfillment, until a death in the family causes him to question the family he took for granted.

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 suddenly realizes that he hates his wife, and resolves to free himself.

When her husband leaves, a divorced woman finds comfort in her home with another version of herself.

A father tells his twenty-year-old son how he was married suddenly to his son's mother at a young age.

A man considers the possibility of multiple realities, and creates possible scenarios for how his life could have turned out; including one where he is a famous football player, another where he's a stay-at-home dad caring for a daughter who has Down Syndrome, and another where she doesn't.

For one man, the world turns upside down when his girlfriend breaks up with him, and for everybody else, the world literally turns upside down in a deadly, catastrophic reversal of gravity.