Manhattan in Reverse (2011) - the second collection by British author Peter F. Hamilton. Most of these are long - novelette to novella length.

Watching Trees Grow
Footvote
If at First...
The Forever Kitten
Blessed by an Angel
The Demon Trap
Manhattan in Reverse

These originally appeared from 2001 to 2008 - in Futures, Postscripts, The Solaris Book of New SF, Nature, The New Space Opera, Galactic Empires. "Watching Trees Grow" first appeared as a book from PS Publishing in 2000, and the final novelette "Manhattan in Reverse" was original to the 2011 Macmillan (-UK) hardcover first edition.