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If you are feeling lonely, or you have ever felt that you are invisible; if being alone makes you more courageous, or you are secretly longing for solitude: you are welcome to read this "Collection of Lonely Stories". While talking about loneliness is often taboo and even shameful, there's no denying that we all experience it from time to time. This book invites twenty-one well-known contemporary American writers to write around "loneliness" and share their personal experiences, providing readers with a series of entry points, touching on issues such as loneliness and gender, sexuality, addiction, immigration, insecurity, disease, etc. Particularly worth mentioning are the many articles discussing "female loneliness" in the book. Our society expects women to bring everything together socially and emotionally, and treats women who enjoy solitude as witches or freaks. Therefore, providing more space for women to examine and accept their loneliness is an urgent task. The writing of this book began before the pandemic, but much of it was written during the long period of isolation. During that tense period of isolation, the original intention of writing this book resonated even more strongly, and the healing it provided became more necessary. Twenty-one writers took turns trying to immerse themselves in loneliness, trying not to be addicted to loneliness, and enriching themselves through "self-discovery". Reading their articles can help alleviate some of our loneliness and remind us to be gentle with loneliness.