Description: "Ben's stories are little gifts, strange and moving and wonderfully human. I devoured this book in one sitting." --Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children "Parables, dark fables, quirky flash fictions--call them what you will, Ben Loory has perfected the form and in Tales of Falling and Flying proves once again he can disturb a little and entertain a lot. Easily read, not easily forgotten." --Jeff VanderMeer, author of The Southern Reach Trilogy "To read a Ben Loory story is to slip through a portal into an adjacent dimension. To learn--with brevity and clarity--the laws of this universe next door, new rules of logic and contradiction and truth. And, in the end, to be left with the disturbing and wondrous feeling of having never left home at all." --Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "These tiny off-kilter fairy tales, equal parts Beckett and Twilight Zone , will amply suit surrealistic seniors and twisted teens alike. Perfect for reading on strange beaches and by oddly-shaped swimming pools. Fits right in your pocket or purse for emergency doses of the charming and weird." --Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander "One of my favorite writers, smart, original Ben Loory is almost impossible to describe. Like Bruno Schulz, if Schulz had been born to a left-handed Little League coach in Short Hills, New Jersey? Like Lydia Davis, if she'd been hatched from an egg? Like listening to a conversation between Bette Davis and Miles Davis outside the house where Amy Winehouse died? Like listening to Mick and Keef not talk about Altamont? Probably there is a war going on somewhere, but these cool, dazzling little tales will never let on." --Peter Straub, author of A Dark Matter

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