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A wounded lieutenant seeks his unit near Stone’s River, but the battlefield has changed around him.
A man wanders a desolate plain looking for the city of Carcosa and finds signs he cannot explain.
A young man hides declarations of love inside the roar of a sled ride, leaving a frightened girl unsure whether hope or the wind is speaking.
Nine years after a joyful summer confession, a wealthy woman measures the life she let class and hesitation decide for her.
A writer tends a wounded widower beside his wife’s coffin and listens as he tries to explain a despair he cannot explain to himself.
At an Epiphany fête, three prosperous old men recall what severe cold meant before wealth protected them from it.
A wet graveyard walk leads to an actor drinking beside the neglected grave of the man who shaped and ruined his life.
Lost in a winter city, a carpenter’s dog is rescued by a circus clown who sees in her the makings of a performer.
Returning to his changed hometown, an aging architect confronts the cost of a divorce he once left others to arrange.
Two chance encounters with remarkable young women leave a traveler pondering why beauty can bring as much sadness as delight.
On his last night in the country, a young statistician walks into the moonlit mist with his host’s daughter and an unexpected confession.
A Latin teacher decides to train a kitten as he trains pupils, with lessons that teach fear more effectively than skill.
A boy discovers his governess’s secret romance and learns how much power a whispered threat can hold.
After nearly six thousand years of immortality, a man who wants to die attempts a radical cure: rebuilding the world of his childhood.
A sick young man enters the Virginia mountains and returns with a precise memory of dying in another century.
After promising his dying cousin that he will never love again, a grieving man leaves their hidden valley and faces a second love.
Nick Adams walks away from a burned town into the Michigan wilderness, building a camp and fishing the river one careful act at a time.
A nostalgic former clerk recalls the sunny Sunday walk when helping a lost couple led him far from his map and his innocence.
A childhood memory of an old seamstress opens onto the secret act of courage that shaped her entire life.
A fashionable niece condemns modern manners, and her older aunt answers with a sharper lesson in observation.
A man who believes himself untouched by age meets the woman he once adored and sees twelve lost years all at once.
A letter from a former lover forces an aging bachelor to compare his remembered youth with the man he has become.
An aging Parisian couple's return to the woods of their courtship ends with an embarrassed appearance before the village mayor.
An aging actress welcomes a traveler into the flower-covered villa where she lives with portraits of the men who loved her.
