David E. Cooper

A fox-loving recluse has a fatal encounter with a man intent on shooting a fox. The tragi-comic fall-out from this leads to an unexpected ending.

A woman is attracted to a young artist who is sketching her. When he betrays her trust, she takes a shocking revenge.

An old and ill Buddhist monk is reunited with the dog that once saved his life.

After a traffic accident, a retired postal worker finds that he is able to speak only a private language that he had invented for himself.