For this short-story experiment, 15 writers agreed to abide by 10 rules for their contributions, something like the 10 Commandments for contemporary literature. These writers were to "Strip their fiction down to the basics, and see if something exciting emerges". The result reads much like what you would expect if Spike Jonze had scripted Boccaccio's Decamerone for MTV. The stories inhabit that non-reality, the present, and depict a pulse-racing vision of the moment that seems almost drug-induced. Some of the stories are diverting: Blincoe's own Short Guide to Game Theory explores the childish absurdity of so-called maturity, and Better than Well, by Daren King, plays disconcertingly with the reader's expectation and comprehension from moment to moment, sentence to sentence. You can decide for yourself whether the experiment was a success.