Throbs at the Desk

Joppan's failed romance excuses him to be an alcoholic. Hoping to start a new life, he seeks out for some love but would fate favor him this time?

Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger...

Jasmine, who is tomboyish and lazy, is matched through an arranged marriage with a religious man who brings tranquility through his behavior and...

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that...

After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss, ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith are stuck in a huge rut. Unbeknownst to each other, they...

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

In 1962 Hong Kong, two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses.

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is...