Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.

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

Everything all at once in word form.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.

A woman embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.