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Listing 10 stories.

A time-traveling man keeps returning to the woman he loves — but due to the limitations of time travel, years pass in between each of his visits. Meanwhile, the woman ages with every passing year, while he stays young as ever — and both must confront the reality that while their love may be timeless, the woman's time on Earth is passing far more rapidly than the man's.

A widow in the Irish countryside needs someone to mow her overgrown fields. She hires her neighbor, who visits her house the following night, but a renegotiation of their agreement is not the only thing he's after.

A woman with a prosthetic heart has the ability to suck evil people's souls out and send them to hell. When her and her partner are treated, the woman must and her partner with insect parts spliced into her face and the power to suck souls dispose of a powerful man’s attempt to capture and use them for his own gain.

In her final letter to her marriage counselor, a woman reveals the truth about her ongoing divorce and her distaste for her religious husband.

In this tragic romance, an American woman and a Shetland man fall in a deep and impassioned love after his cat flies into her in a wind storm.

By a stroke of luck, a widowed beekeeper finds temporary refuge in a college professor, who reminds her how it feels to be "real" after years of leading an isolated life that has lost all luster.

Whilst torn between her family in South America and her colorful yet confusing life in New York, an aspiring historian receives tragic news about a past lover.

In the face of unwanted romantic advances and a discriminatory landlord, a recently divorced Indian American woman struggles to find her place in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

When a charismatic new econ history teacher moves in next door and gains a mass following at an Ohio university, the physical education instructor wonders if he is really worth the hype.

After her father suffers a terrible accident, a farm girl from a distant planet reluctantly travels to Earth for an education.