A collection of short stories -- some shorter than others -- by Ruth Nestvold, all of which previously appeared in some pretty well-known publications.

I love short stories, but generally speaking with these collections, there are some hits and some misses. In this case, though, there wasn't a single one which I didn't enjoy. I will say that the author has a bit of a dark streak, because most of them (minor spoiler alert) have less-than-happy endings. That's not to say that they start out badly; some of these start out painting a beautiful picture of a future that I might actually want to live in, but they end in ways that make you think that the future isn't always as perfect as it seems.