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Maria leaves the laundry for a Halloween visit with the family she helped raise.
On Easter morning, three children take flowers from a recluse's hill, drawing him back toward the village.
A wet and hungry prankster turns up at a lonely doctor's door during a storm.
On her way to Mass, a girl stays with an elderly neighbor whom no one else can tend.
A woman who has never wanted children must care for a neighbor's four youngsters.
A solitary narrator turns from people to the quiet of a summer night.
On a bitter Christmas Eve, an out-of-work watchmaker hears a violin through the wall just as he loses hope.
After drinking an alchemist's unfinished elixir, a lovesick young man begins to outlive everyone he knows.
A young man searching for a vanished singer rents a decaying room whose lingering traces seem to answer his longing.
A struggling typist finds a small, private universe in the star she watches through the skylight of her attic room.
A shopkeeper notices a corpse that his entire town ignores, then realizes being the only person alarmed may mark him as prey.
Stranded on a seemingly hospitable planetoid, a spaceman discovers that the only danger comes when he tries to sleep.
Sixty years after being stranded on Mars, an old man receives a phone call from the younger self he recorded to survive the silence.
In a future that has abolished fear, graveyards, and the literature of horror, the last man from the dead rises to make the world afraid again.
An aging prospector on a remote asteroid gives his work robot a personality and gains the companion he never expected.
The apparent last man on a ruined Earth can create anything he imagines, until a woman arrives and challenges what he believes is real.
A long-haul spacer returns to Earth to meet his newborn son, drunk, broke, and unsure whether he can stop choosing space over his family.
