I really liked most of these. Sometimes I have trouble rating collections, whether by one or several authors; invariably some stories are good and some are less good. So this time I made a point of rating each one of the 22 (true) stories here 1-5. The resulting average was 3.68, lower than I would have expected because overall, I would rate the collection at least 4, and probably 4.5 if we had half stars in this thing.

Anyway, as long as I've already bothered to do them (and the WorldCat record has a 505 that I can copy/paste from), here are the individual ratings:

5 stars
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Safe / Charles D'Ambrosio
Desperate creatures / Felicia Sullivan
My vow of poverty / Tony Serra
Notes on bling / Steve Rinehart
Mad money / Andy Behrman --
Pre-existing condition / Jonathan Dee.

4 stars
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The guy next door / Henry Alford
Nouveau poor / Ruth Konigsberg
My inheritance / Meera Nair
For richer / Fred Leebron
For poorer / Kathryn Rhett
Dirty work / Lydia Millet
On selling drugs, badly / Brett Martin
What this cost me / Susan Choi
The perilous dune / Jeanne McCullough

3 stars
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A dollar a tear / Marian Fontana
The American dream / Isabel Rose
This way out / Jill McCorkle

2 stars
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Porn bought my football / Chris Offut
Stash / Claire Dededer

1 star
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Treasure me / Walter Kirn
Wining / Daniel Handler