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Listing 6 stories.
A writer for the ’60s most famed and experimental television series watches the shows phantasmic creator choose between recluse genius and a quaint life of normalcy. Faced with stubborn alcoholism, a hit television series resemblant of the twilight zone, and a tree stump with questionably magical properties, the narrator watches cinematic wunderkind David Findley toe the line between brilliance and delusion.
A Vietnamese American man reflects on a poem that he wrote, and in doing so, contends with the weight of desire, lies, and injustice.
A writer thinks about the not-so-fine moments of his career right before an exposé about his inappropriate conduct toward various women goes live.
The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.
A writer grapples with the suicide of her longtime friend and mentor.
A woman reflects on what happened when her downstairs neighbor, an older Korean man, suffers from a seizure at their shared patio.