Writing a foreword, a man reflects on his relationship to a writer and said writer's wife.

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 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 publisher who once gave his job to a young man he believed to be starving confronts the now-pretentious writer who never thanked him for it.

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 is shocked when his retired father begins to publish stories. The man struggles to admit that his father is a talented writer, especially since the stories are based on events from the man's childhood.

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

When a mysterious new member joins a group of struggling authors, the friends discover that they may have a supernatural creature in their midst, who can grant a single author success above all the others—but at a cost.

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

A minorly successful writer allows his insecurities to drive him to dramatic actions.