Stories for nighttime and some for the day
By: Ben Loory
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780143119500
Subjects: Short stories
Description: "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: title: The book; title: The swimming pool; title: The tunnel; title: The crown; title: The man who went to China; title: The octopus; title: The path; title: The hunter's head; title: The duck; title: The well; title: The shadow; title: The TV and Winston Churchill; title: Death and the fruits of the tree; title: UFO: a love story; title: The hat; title: The magic pig; title: Bigfoot; title: The shield; title: The Martian; title: The little girl and the balloon; title: The poet; title: The rope and the sea; title: The knife act; title: The fish in the teapot; title: The girl in the storm; title: The afterlife is what you leave behind; title: The tree; title: The sea monster; title: The man and the moose; title: The end of it all; title: On the way down: a story for Ray Bradbury; title: The house on the cliff and the sea; title: The snake in the throat; title: The graveyard; title: The ferris wheel; title: Photographs; title: The walk that replaced understanding; title: The woman and the basement; title: Hadley; title: The TV.