Well, I'm thrilled and honored to have the opening story in this book, with authors I admire such as Peter S. Beagle and Cat Rambo (I understand Eugie Foster is also widely admired, although this book is the first time I read her).
I try not to give star ratings to books I'm in, but I quite enjoyed reading this book. The authors I listed above did not disappoint, nor did Amy Treadwell, whose work I first read in Triangulation: Taking Flight. There are a number of remarkable writers I didn't know before this book, whom I will have to watch for in the future.
I have two favorites from the book. One is "A Womb of My Own" by Tinatsu Wallace, in which a gay married couple with a less-than-ideal relationship decide to have their own child in an artificial womb--but because they aren't so good at communicating, the guy who's carrying the child is still keeping his misgivings to himself.
My other favorite from the book is "Commander Perry's Mystic Wonders Show" Jaime Lee Moyer, which begins with an old Carney warning his daughter not to feed the troll--and gets better from there. From a narrator, surrounded by wonders, deciding whether to run away from the circus.