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

An ordinary man gets an inch and a half of mention in the newspaper after stumbling into a low stakes rescue — and the small bit of fame sends him spiraling down a dark, egotistical path.

In a small town, a resident watches as the people and place change. He recounts eight seemingly disparate stories, but the town connects them all.

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

Two American friends escape their vacation in Paris to the French countryside, enjoying a day of fresh air until a Russian waiter and an Austrian remind them of the horrors of war.

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 man walks with a writer around London who tells him about the novel he wrote that was lost which can never be matched in beauty by any other.

After hearing about his son's exciting experiences on a Boy Scouts outing in the woods, a father begins to feel jealous and detached from his work at a big law firm.

A man tells the story of his son-in-law who used his poetry skills to make real money.

A surly seaman on leave from his tanker, the Tanner Compton, roams a forrest and finds an unexpected friend in a young local girl.