When a New York woman learns that her assistant’s husband cut his middle finger off during a fight, she can’t help but dwell on her assistant’s luck with men and her own inferiority.

A college girl becomes her professor's mistress and moves into his home with his wife and children. After she becomes pregnant, the wife is pushed to make a tragic decision to escape her crumbling marriage and protect the young new mother.

A professor in an unhappy marriage obsesses over and fantasizes about a much younger student, imagining how he will age.

When a woman reunites with her old college professor slash lover, it takes her back to her college-aged self and makes her feel immature and childlike again.

Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.

One woman’s affair leads to a lifelong revelation.

A lonely high school English teacher develops a crush on one of his students, who continually writes him notes about the books she reads and calls him out of the blue. When her family invites him over for dinner to celebrate her admission to Princeton, he is caught off guard when they announce they want him to marry her.

An awkward Connecticut professor tries to cure his loneliness by dating tens of women, all to no avail.

Multiple extramarital affairs come to a head years later, but the narrator circumvents them at the last moment.

A woman tries to understand her friend's newest movie and, in doing so, the incident that initially drove them apart.