There are two distinct types of stories here: horror stories, and melancholy contemporary fiction stories. Of the horror stories, the best was "Windeye" by Brian Evenson. Of the m.c.f. stories, the best was "How" by Roxane Gay. I wish this had had more horror stories than it did, but I always feel churlish saying that about a genre-adjacent collection. Many of the m.c.f. stories didn't appeal to me at all.