A retired, middle-aged man lives alone after leaving his wife and daughters in England and moving to Vancouver. Amid the growing certainty of death and the absence of any strong relationships, he realizes he must break out of the vacuum within which he lives.

An old man becomes aware of the finality of his life, and that he couldn't find much meaning to it anymore.

An elderly Russian man comes across a young American in a park and tells the young man about coming of age in Russia.

In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.

A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.

An old man reflects on his past actions after he puts his wife with Alzheimer’s in a nursing home.

An old (76) man returns to his hometown in China after 66 years, to find that his mother has just passed away. With fanciful ideas of his assured prosperity in America, the village women seek to marry the old man.

After his newspaper route, a young paperboy enters a Southern café, only to be roped into a philosophical conversation surrounding love by an old man.

An elderly man realizes his troublesome son is the only thing keeping him going.

A lonely man in his forties imagines a domestic life with a woman he briefly met who is interested in his furniture, but not his marriage proposal.