One of the more successful short story collections I’ve tried. Mostly concerned with morality as a social construct, most of the people are interesting because they serve as a lens to regard how society has enabled them to be bad people, or actively stymie their ability to be, and do “good”. It makes some of the stories merely interesting as a meta, because I didn’t actually care what happened to a lot of these people, such as the circle of pain in a workplace feud between, primarily, two women. Actually, the ones I remember the most are from people in workplace environments doing messed up stuff.

They work, though, because of the conversation they start as functions in larger systems. It’s humorous in ways that work, unexpectedly. It’s coherent enough that I can see why they’ve been grouped as such. And the writing quality is good. I can’t say it really blew me away, but it certainly exceeded my expectations as a person who generally doesn’t get along with short stories.