This is a short story collection, and the lengths and genres vary. Although I think the brevity worked to some story's disadvantage, there were at least 5 stories in here that I re-read several times ("Shift", "Message in a Bottle", "Left Foot, Right", "Blushing", and "Ours is the Prettiest"). Even when some of the plots were predictable, the writing style and descriptions were very interesting. If the story felt too short, there were still new ideas/ images introduced for me to mull over.