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 college student's somewhat pathetic alcoholic uncle regales him and his mother with a tale of how a famous skywriter meddled with his life and love.

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

A miserable man writes a letter to his adulterous ex-wife, reviewing the signs he missed of her infidelity and the various lovers she took to eventually escape her marriage with a new husband.

The Chappalwala family sends to the Mongerji’s magical letters containing animals and plants from around the world, but this practice which endured for generations comes to an end.

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.

In an unlikely encounter, a homeless teenage boy recounts harsh events of his life to a writer. He nonchalantly tells of an employer whose assignments caused him to have permanent physical and mental damage.

A rambunctious teenager with an inquisitive mind causes much grief for all his New England family and neighbors when he visits them in the summer of 1914, on the eve of World War I.

A creative writing teacher sits through a conference with one his favorite students. He takes us on a journey through the characters in the story, and in his life.

A librarian's apprentice copies down the contents of a strange green book which contains the trapped soul of a dead woman.