A fun collection of short stories that does not attempt to be more than that (cf. the number of collections that feel the need to interconnect). Williams seems to love a neat conceit built around wordplay, but the highlights here are the ever-so-slightly heartbreaking ones - a skywritten proposal, a shipping forecast gone awry - which really make the most of the form, ending before the ending, leaving you with the ambiguous uneasy feeling in your stomach as you wonder what happens next.