Jung’s observation in 1933 sounds surprisingly contemporary, yet it was written well before the relational movement in psychoanalysis was even conceived, and at a time when psychoanalysis was attempting to establish itself as a science. Jung’s statement is also a reminder of the importance of ‘chemistry’, in the sense of reaction and movement in all our close one-to-one encounters. At the core of the present collection of twenty-two stories is the desire to relate, to attach and to become known to one another. Though all encounters in these stories whether within or outside the consulting room are fictional, fiction writing here serves as the vehicle for capturing the ordinary setting of the interpersonal dance of relationships.