A middle-aged writer turns back the clock by twenty years and narrates his ill-fated romance with the beautiful but unattainable girl from his memories.

A college professor goes on a wilderness retreat to better connect with some ideas of American Literature, but his plan backfires and turns into a learning moment for his students.

For a teenage boy living in Nashville, Tennessee, it is impossible to be close with his grandfather the way his parents expect them to be. Although they call the same area home, the grandfather and grandson come from opposite worlds.

While watching his infant son, a man recalls an old memory from his adolescence involving a charming guest and his views on the nature of men and animals.

A mother sorrowfully recounts her daughter’s first love and its destructive effects.

An elderly gentleman on a ship meets someone from his hometown and recounts the bittersweet story of a silly girl with whom he fell in love.

A Black man survives a train crash that he caused, and thinks back on the mysterious stranger who revealed his true heritage to him: he is a shoggoth, a slave of the Elder Things, and in causing the crash he has set himself free.