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Listing 25 stories.

A woman leaves her island home to serve at a créche on the mainland in a poor area of the city. There, she falls in love with one of the children she cares for and wants him as her own, but his mother commits a crime that puts the boy out of reach.

An unhappy housewife lives the same morning over and over again until finally giving in to the darkness inside.

In a mythological kingdom, a woman is forced to marry the greedy king, causing the separation and imprisonment of her and her children and forcing the family to escape and reunite.

A woman has desired to become a nun since she was young, and nothing deters her until she must choose between her dream and the love of her life.

A teacher on the Lower East side meets a friendly man with a presence resembling a dead English poet.

A homosexual military sergeant, with no use for his money after his parent’s estrangement, attempts to support the destitute family of a soldier just shipped off to Iraq.

When an explosion on Long Island results in the loss of an important scientist named Mercer, Avery Roda, Vice President of Draper Fawcett enlists graphologist Gordon Sills to help him locate the woman who might have the answers.

In the midst of his divorce, Carter, a man who seemingly struggles with impotence, realizes that he has a tendency to get married to chronically unfaithful women

Two brothers set out in the rural midwest to discover the fate of their grandfather who went missing fifty years prior, leaving behind only an enigmatic 'song' and a photo of an unidentified woman.

An ex-military engineer is enthused to receive an invitation to a reunion for Desert Storm operatives, only to realize he's stumbled into an elaborate revenge plot.