A lovely collection of some of Plath's short stories with some additional essays and notebook pages. Not all of these stories are exceptional but I enjoy her elegant writing so much and her stories are much more approachable than her poems. They are often a mix of domestic life, minute observations, and character studies, sometimes with a little twist at the end that reminded me of Shirley Jackson. From what I know about Plath's life I assume that many of her stories are highly autobiographical, so I think they'd make for an interesting comparison with her diaries. That being said, I must admit that I didn't really care for most of the notebook excerpts because they (obviously) don't have the narrative guidance her written-for-publication texts have. But the stories definitely dominate this collection, so if you generally enjoy Plath's prose, this is worth the read.