With elaborate descriptions of the body, a husband muses about his relationship with his delicate wife. Reflecting on their good and bad days, the husband oscillates between worrying about their future and feeling passionate love.

A woman's obsession with her childhood reflection leads her sailor husband to gift her a full-length mirror that changes the family’s dynamics.

A young couple in 1880s Wyoming buys a plot of land, builds a home, and falls in love. The man leaves temporarily for work, but tragedy befalls each of them, and the couple never reunites.

An effective fat-burninng pill with high odds of mortality is invented, and it makes obesity a rarity, and a crime.