After the loss of their newborn, a man goes on an obsessive house hunt in a new city to prepare for his depressed wife's arrival.

Terrence and Ruth, a middle-aged couple, move house for a fresh start - but their new house is in disrepair. Ruth contends with sickness, unfulfillment, and her staling marriage while laboriously cleaning it.

After his mother passes, a middle-aged man reminisces on the relationship between himself, his mother, and their house in rural Pennsylvania.

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 writer grapples with the suicide of her longtime friend and mentor.

While reading a novel by Marcel Proust, a middle-aged woman is shocked to find herself remembering her grandmother. The memories that bubble up force her to confront her family's dysfunction and her place in it.

Through a confronting use of second-person, four haunted houses are hypothesized, each worse than the last, and ending with the most terrifying picture of all: dark reality in suburbia.

A woman who lives happily in hotel rooms is shaken when her husband suddenly decides he wants a new life.

When a writer and her old writing professor reconvene in a Mexican restaurant one final time before the professor's death, they experience a night of unwanted encounters and unnecessary criticism that leaves the writer with a bitter taste in her mouth.

A disgruntled writer returns to his small suburban town for what will likely be his last time seeing his ill father.