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I always favor the Best American Mystery Short Stories over this anthology. While this edition served up perhaps 3-4 decent stories, including "Breatharians," by Collan Wink, for the most part the stories were yawners, elitist yarns (yawns) by the typical crew of our supposed best short story writers, like George Saunders, Jim Shepard, and especially mournful and moanful, Alice Munro. Not worth the price of admission.

Here's the deal. Everyone purchasing this book has been reading it from the context of a human in another boat, trying to stay out of the way of a bigger boat. That's wrong. This book was written for Tuna Fish. The Tuna Fish is constantly in the news about being over-fished and Capt. Trimmer is simply trying to give the creatures a game plan of how to avoid the ships doing all the big fishing. Capt. Trimmer understands that fish can't tell the difference between huge ships like oil tankers or huge ships like commercial fishing vessels so he advices the Tuna to simply avoid all huge ships. Capt. Trimmer should be commended for this work, however, his enormous error lies in the fact that fish can't purchase books. They don't have a way to earn money and even if they did they don't have the opposable thumbs to be able to hold a book or even an ebook reader such as an ipad or kindle. And lets not forget the fact that it would take a very huge ship to deliver all the books it would take to educate all the Tuna, thereby adding to the problem of Tuna being drawn toward huge ships.