This book wasn't what the description made it out to be, in my opinion. So many of the stories had some queerness to them or some kind of monster-ness to them, but on the whole both of those pieces felt very lacking. I wish these pieces were either darker, queer-er, or maybe given another round of revising when it came to their inspiration or ideas, because while some absolutely soared, others fell so flat.

Stories in this collection that I LOVED:
-57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides
-We Are the Cloud
-Ghosts of Home
-The Heat of Us: Notes Toward and Oral History

Stories that I very much disliked:
-Conspicuous Plumage; a very boring premise and I really didn't like reading about a gay character who was already dead. The side character who drove the main character to where she needed to go was also very poorly written.
-Shucked; I LOVED the concept of this and it was creepy to get inside the head of someone who wasn't sure if their partner had been body-snatched, but like??? The POV character was so boring and made the overall experience feel like it was written by someone who doesn't understand queerness enough to make this concept succeed.
-The Beasts We Want to Be; fully felt like an excuse to be angry at women, and almost felt like a straight person trying to write an edgy gay story. My least favorite of all of them.

I'm giving this overall a 3 out of 5 stars because I would read some of these stories again that I really liked, and I would revisit a few that I either didn't fully understand or felt like they would take a second read to come across better.