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

A professor tries to convey to his students the magnitude of the most perfectly crafted poem ever written in the English language: “Lycidas.”

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.

A writing critic reviews the construction of Charles Chesnutt’s stories and how to write surfiction.

A teacher on the Lower East side meets a friendly man with a presence resembling a dead English poet.

A teacher reminisces about all his wonderful students of the Narrative Studies courses he has taught around the world before his career comes to an end.

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 minorly successful writer allows his insecurities to drive him to dramatic actions.

A man recalls his intimate friendship with his former English professor, who resolved to fuel his unsatisfied desire for playwriting during the time they were apart. In their reunion decades later, instead of the brilliant play he promised, the professor shows his former student a disturbing product of his mental instability.

A seventh-grade English teacher copes with the recent death of her father and assigns a memoir that her students love reading. However, their parents question her for her pedagogical choices because of the swear words and provocative topics in the book.