A family patriarch narrates his concerns over his stepson's increasing isolation and secretive behavior in the wake of his wife's death.
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At a corporate masquerade ball, a young man puts on a brave face while grappling with devastating memories and the pressures of his powerful boss, with his partner Jack by his side.
A young man haunted by a terminal illness finds solace in a mysterious, otherworldly woman who appears in his dreams each morning.
Following his childhood love Karen's funeral, Paul visits her friend Marcy for comfort sex, complicated by their hidden past affair and a secret pregnancy.
A young woman reunites with her on-and-off ex-boyfriend Lewis after eight months apart, grappling with love she can't quite trust.
A depressed journeyman mage, unable to pay her tavern tab, spirals toward prostitution after failing her master test.
Four years after walking away from her first love Lewis, a woman reconnects with him while in a relationship with Zak, rekindling old passions she thought she'd buried.
A Black man reflects on his prolific sexual history with white and Latina women before a final encounter with his favorite lover in Miami.
An American western frontier story introducing characters and setting before romance blooms between them.
A retired man living near Myrtle Beach encounters a homeless person and decides to stop and help, beginning an unlikely friendship.
A career military officer named after a feminist icon drunkenly reflects on the ironies of her life before her philosopher husband administers a disciplinary spanking.
A lonely single mother reconnects with her own sensuality on a quiet, humid summer night after her divorce.
During a flesh-eating disease outbreak, two friends grapple with grief and complicated feelings after a casual sexual encounter.
A lonely seventeen-year-old high school student named Richard, universally despised for reasons unknown, begins to awaken to something extraordinary on the day after his forgotten birthday.
A grieving man haunted by the loss of a young girl named Katie encounters her in a dream at a crossroads, promising to find someone who can change fate.
Rosie reflects on her past cuckoldry while watching her ex-husband happily remarried with a new child, confronting the guilt of her sexual misadventures.
A wealthy, work-obsessed oil company heir struggling with insomnia and loneliness encounters a situation leading to reluctant gay intimacy.
A grieving 50-year-old widower begins to open his heart to new love after meeting a special woman at a wedding.
A dragon rider consoles his lonely dragon companion during her heat cycle after she refuses to mate with their unborn offspring, forcing them to find another way to satisfy her primal urges.
An innocent woman, recently betrayed by her husband, finds a guardian angel and the adventure and affection she has long craved.