This is a beautiful collection of short stories on different facets of friendships. Loved the theme. It brings together 18 different writers and stories in one paperback. Readers get emotional tales, thrillers, and drama. Each story is so uniquely stitched. That's the beauty of getting together several writers - different perspectives, beautiful ways of imagining friendship at every stage of life. We get chance encounters, adulthood friendships, attachment with a passerby in life, childhood connections living it up long in adulthood too, sometimes beyond life itself.