Includes:

Rick Bass's "Fires"
performed by Ted Marcoux
In the Rockies, a woman sets fire to a parched field to take the plunge into the pool of love.

Padgett Powell's "The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping"
performed by Christina Pickles
An eccentric southern dame cleans up her act and finds love.

Laurie Colwin's "The Lone Pilgrim"
performed by Hope Davis
A New York artist longs for love and marital domesticity.

E. Nesbit's "Melisande"
performed by Jane Curtin
A delicious fairy tale about a princess with a terrible curse.

Edna O'Brien's "Violets"
performed by Fionnula Flanagan
A subtle portrait of a woman caught in an impossible affair.

Maile Meloy's "Travis, B."
performed by William Hurt
A Western love story between a lonesome cowboy and a city gal.