A New York bartender attempts to engage in a conversation about owning comets — as in, the ones in space —with his somewhat crazy customer.

When a musician is faced with harsh criticism from a revered teacher, the life he had always planned goes up in flames.

An older man meets with various friends and his ex-wife in New York City, where he has come after his fourth wife runs off with a poet.

When a writer and her old writing professor reconvene in a Mexican restaurant one final time before the professor's death, they experience a night of unwanted encounters and unnecessary criticism that leaves the writer with a bitter taste in her mouth.