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"Some for your Day and Tales for Evening is that rare find--a guide that excites the audience. These stories are vertiginous and amusing within the comfortably ridiculous types of Lydia Davis, Jack Handey and Etgar Keret. Together with his first book, Bill Loory demonstrates he is currently a grasp of the sleight of hand." -Stewart O'Nan, writer of A Prayer for the DyingLooryis assortment of wry and amusing, dim and risky modern myths is filled by people--and creatures and bushes and jocular octopi--who're inspired by exactly the same concerns and wishes that isolate and unite all of us. Within this single world, televisions speak (and occasionally perform), creatures reside in tiny flats where their nephews visit in the ocean, and men and women and boys and girls slip wells and fly-through space and discover love on Ferris wheels.