A humanoid immortal figure lives through the years following the death of her friend. As she watches the last of her friend's lineage die after 600 years, she reflects on the nature of her relationship with the friend.

An Indian American woman wishes to reconnect with a childhood friend, but all does not go as planned.

Two childhood best friends have trouble reconciling the nature of their friendship—and the different worlds they now live in—after having grown up together.

A woman tries to understand the space-time continuum and his love.

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.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

A woman reluctantly visits her old friends in Grimsby for the weekend, feeling like their good times are far behind. Though the conversations are genial, she considers how they've changed over time.

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 complex web of human relationships is presented in the form of an algebraic expression.

A group of friends realize they have been living vicariously through one of their friend's travel stories for their entire lives.