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

A man tries to determine the cost of a passionate but brief love affair, and his calculations lead him to a solemn but hopeful realization.

A privileged young woman from New England falls in love with a practical Midwesterner, but can their love withstand the grief of losing a child?

A woman considers her possible shortcomings when her boyfriend tells her that he doesn’t like some things about her. After a period of reflection, she acknowledges the futility of self-deprecation.

A man who unknowingly talks to himself wonders why a woman who is satisfied with her marriage is having an affair with him.

In a world where there is no smell, taste, pain, death, or digestion, the people are left hungering for one thing: love.

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

A writer uses his relationship with a mysterious woman as inspiration for his magical realism story. But, things go awry when he begins to question their compatibility.

After falling in love with another man, an insecure woman attempts to discuss her current marriage with her husband while they drink in a bar.

In post-World War II Japan, a boy is raised by his frigid father without love and spends the rest of his life endlessly pursuing it.