A man trying to find meaning in life has an affair with a girl. He struggles with whether he should tell his wife.

A writer struggles to craft a story and begins to lose his own sanity when an idea finally comes to him.

When Harold's wife dies, seemingly by malicious cause, he becomes the prime suspect. As the public defender investigates her death, he finds that she may have held secrets herself.

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.

Two young boys are alone at their father's farm for the week, when one of them discovers what he believes to be a dead body in the forest near their land.

A young girl works to impress her highly critical parents and submits to a terrible fate as she struggles to meet their impossible standards.

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 middle aged man becomes the talk of the town when he shares a crazy story regarding his missing friend and creatures that live beneath a water pump house.

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.

A research psychologist visits a peculiar asylum patient who recounts his life story. The patient warns the researcher about how obsession with the pursuit of knowledge can make one lose sight of their humanity until it is unsalvageable.