Stories for nighttime and some for the day

• Main Author: Loory, Ben (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Penguin Books 2011
• Subjects: Short stories
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"This collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables and tales is populated by people--and monsters and aliens and animals and inanimate objects--motivated by and grappling with the fears and desires that unite us all."--P. [2] of cover.

Table of Contents:

• The book
• The swimming pool
• The tunnel
• The crown
• The man who went to China
• The octopus
• The path
• The hunter's head
• The duck
• The well
• The shadow
• The TV and Winston Churchill
• Death and the fruits of the tree
• UFO: a love story
• The hat
• The magic pig
• Bigfoot
• The shield
• The Martian
• The little girl and the balloon
• The poet
• The rope and the sea
• The knife act
• The fish in the teapot
• The girl in the storm
• The afterlife is what you leave behind
• The tree
• The sea monster
• The man and the moose
• The end of it all
• On the way down: a story for Ray Bradbury
• The house on the cliff and the sea
• The snake in the throat
• The graveyard
• The ferris wheel
• Photographs
• The walk that replaced understanding
• The woman and the basement
• Hadley
• The TV.