Salad Days · review
First of all, yes, the art work is not great. It is after all from 1999. The scans could be a lot better. HOWEVER, the stories are great. The mangaka is a bloody genius at telling them. Overall the stories cover everything from the ordinary falling-in-love one-shot type, to the mystical, to the "how do you recover from losing the one you love." As the other reviewers have said, these are mostly 1-3 chapter stories, but, there is one story that covers 10 (approximately) years in the lives of two characters, Yuki and Futaba,beginning with the day the first met. If you read nothing else, read these chapters. By themselves they tell a story better than most all mangas of the type.
The pertinent chapters are:
24-26, 29-30, 53-54, 60, 67, 75-76, 83, 91, 102-104.