What is the importance of the title, Fast Lanes?

Phillips's choice of "Fast Lanes" as the title story suggests that these stories, taken together, serve as a commentary on sanity as a precarious balance between reality and illusion. At one extreme, Rayme has chosen delusion, rejecting all forms of conventional reality. To a lesser degree, Mickey's prospective music career represents a triumph of self-delusion, as does the pregnant woman's belief that she and her child will be able to live in a dream world that unites them and excludes all others. Likewise, Angela and Kay in "Something That Happened" irrationally and whimsically pursue the interrelationship of the emotions and the body systems.