Illuminate

Here's one short story collection you simply MUST read: Merrill Feitell's Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes.

Every one of these clean, elegant, emotionally resonant stories is near perfection.

In "It Couldn't Be More Beautiful," a young girl realizes over Thanksgiving holiday her older sister has moved on to other, more grown-up alliances, and still everything is okay.
In "Bike New York!" a man, a week just before his wedding, wakes up late for his bachelor-cycling group and ends up riding with a teen-aged girl. Throughout the ride he examines his decision to marry.
"The Marrying Kind," nearly broke my heart. A pregnant woman goes to her baby's father's wedding and wonders whether she will tell him the truth. During the wedding she thinks back to when he had asked her to marry him and she'd been unable to make up her mind.
In "Our Little Lone Star," a middle-aged woman drives out to Arizona with her college-aged daughter's car, and by doing so, faces her fear of risks.

I highly recommend this collection.