She scowled, hoping it wasn’t Cynthia. Ever since Maggie’s divorce, her well-meaning friend encouraged her to embrace spontaneity, go out on the town at a moment’s notice and for once, have some fun.

In his experience, being clairvoyant was a meddlesome burden with far too many costs and too few benefits.

I have a special reason for wanting to find someone with knowledge of French, and my intuition – which I always trust – told me I would find that person here in Zenpukuji Park.

Are halter-tops and half price Bermudas part of the grand design?

A love story in two voices: Martin Green, an English teacher in China in the 1980s, and MingMing, his young Chinese 'minder'

A student rents an apartment that looks onto the meticulously kept garden of the strange Dr Rappaccini and his beautiful daughter.

Have Jeanna and Malcolm something more in common than a love of books?

A woman reflects on an old love.

Two women meet at a Woody Allen film.

A make-up artist has a revealing temporary job.

A musician helps out a young girl.

With the promise of a viewing of a lost Leonardo masterpiece, a man visits the home of the obsessive Dr. Lombard and his daughter.

A romantic vision of the afterlife.

A man meets a beautiful but penniless girl on a trip to Cuba.

Lisa returns to the island of her honeymoon to think about her marriage.