8 stories and 16 authors went into making this wonderful piece of inventive and unconventional work. I can't say that I fully understood every single one of these stories, because some of them were very slippery and enigmatic, but the writing quality was a real treat. The Grief Hour and Apricots were for me the best of the collection, mostly because they felt the most comprehensible to me, but also because they combined beauty and inventiveness with a more grounded feeling than some of the other tales. That being said, all of the stories had very memorable and affecting imagery, and lodged in the brain with notable persistence. A lovely collection that I'd certainly recommend to people who like well written literature that resists being nailed down.