Loved this collection of short stories - a mix of horror, thriller and meditations on what it is to age

- Two Talented Bastids - 4.5* 
- The Fifth Step - 4.75* - short, sharp, shocking, did exactly what it needed and told a complete story in 10 pages. 
- Willie The Weird - 4.75* - the payoff of this story, one sentence, one small description makes the whole thing and the evidence is given to you throughout the whole story. So good. 
- Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream - 3.5* - great idea but too long and too repetitive. Either should have been a standalone novella or 50-75 pages shorter - loved the first and final third
- Finn - 4* 
- Slide Inn Road 4* 
- Red Screen - 4.5* I feel like these short ones have packed the most punch and have the darker implications. 
- The Turbulence Expert - 4* 
- Laurie - Initial rating 3.75* - I liked it but maybe just didn't get it. It was dark in terms of what happened to Don and Lloyd's near miss but there was no twist or suckerpunch final note...was Laurie meant to be Marian?
Later - Reading more seems like it is just meant to be a sweet story and a slow and reflective look at getting older, and starting again after loss which it accomplishes so 4*. 
- Rattlesnakes - 4* 
- The dreamers - 3.5* - I wanted more, didn't feel quite as satisfying as some of the others 
- The Answer Man - 4.5* - like Laurie and connecting with a lot of the others this is another look at life, love and loss and what it means to age.