| Story | Synopsis | Setting |
| Some Get Back | Two bakery workers set out to get revenge against an ornery boss. | 1930s, Augusta, GA |
| Assisted Living | As punishment, a teenaged girl is tasked with visiting her principal’s elderly mother who lives in an assisted living facility. | Contemporary, a Southern city |
| The Benefactress | A principal of a black high school in the South makes an annual appeal to his school’s wealthy benefactress and faces compromising his ideals to keep the funds flowing. | 1920s, New York City and Long Island |
| Love You. Always | An aging R&B bass player visits his grown daughter in an annual ritual to make amends for past bad deeds. A mysterious bracelet worn by the father helps to warm the chill of their relationship. | Contemporary, a Southern city |
| Collier Road | A family man seeks to move his wife and daughters to a better neighborhood after neighbors have a street fight. | 1978, a Southern City |
| The Photograph | The story behind a notable news photograph haunts a married pair of Southern ex-hippies when the photo is to be commemorated in the local newspaper. | 2000s, a Southern college town |
| Cotton Compress | During his summer vacation, a graduate student wants to teach life lessons to the laborers who eat at his aunt’s makeshift lunch counter. | 1940s, Augusta, GA |
| Glass House | An Army wife learns the history of the curious house she hates to live. | 1990s, a Georgia city |
| Just Desserts | After robbing a drunken suitor she met at a bar, a young woman manages to hitch a ride home and decides along the way that bad things should happen to those who deserve it. | 1990s, rural Georgia and Atlanta |
| Tea Time | A young black man and his Jewish newlywed have a tea party with his mentee, a kid from the other side of town. Things go wrong and relationships become fragile. | Contemporary, suburban and inner city Washington, DC |
| Dates for Kreeger | An ambitious young city worker opens up to his homosexuality and tries to find love in all the right places. | Contemporary, Norfolk and Virginia Beach, VA |
| Crystal Lake | A remembrance of a summer fraternity picnic where a project kid accompanies his mentor and learns what it means to be a fish out of water. | 1970s, a Southern City |
| Strivers | A Pullman Porter’s daughter prepares for a debutant ball during Christmastime. A visiting uncle plans to be her dance partner since the father has to be away for work. | 1950s, Augusta, GA |
| The Interview | While his classmates at a respected Philadelphia university dream of Wall Street, a young man settles for interviewing with a Southern tool manufacturer. The interview process takes a raunchy turn. | Contemporary, Spartanburg, SC |
| Lester Is Late | A cancer diagnosis and a delayed card game bring about thoughts of mortality and an appreciation of life. | 1980s, a Southern city |
Robert J. Williams | Fiction Writer | Washington, DC
