One woman’s affair leads to a lifelong revelation.

A nameless person tells a story of when they had an intimate conversation over dinner with a former schoolmate whom they idealized.

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.

When a woman reunites with her old college professor slash lover, it takes her back to her college-aged self and makes her feel immature and childlike again.

A chance encounter with an old ex-girlfriend causes a man to remember his past relationship with her and with his cousin, who immigrated from Korea to America to live with his family as a small child. Though she died in a motorcycle accident years ago, when his ex-girlfriend asks how she's doing he lies, creating the life she never had in his imagination.

A woman remembers how she met her unusual husband in a ski lodge and the series of events that led them to their current home in the South Pole.

In an alternative past where each human can access the minds of all other people at all times, a car crash causes one man to lose connection, and he becomes infatuated with the feeling of having a singular mind.

Upon encountering a former student of his on the train, a pompous writer is knocked off of his pedestal.

A conversation with his former lover opens a man's eyes to his tendency to flee rather than confront the hopeless reality of his own life.

A young woman reminisces about her friend with whom she lost contact. She thinks of her friend's past and tries to get in touch with her.