THE WOMAN RETURNS FROM THE STORE WITH AN ARMLOAD OF BOOKS. SHE READS THEM QUICKLY, ONE BY ONE, OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. BUT WHEN SHE OPENS THE LAST ONE, THE WOMAN FROWNS IN SURPISE. ALL THE PAGES IN THE BOOK ARE BLANK. EVERY SINGLE ONE 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. In this visionary world, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), octopi leave the sea to collect spoons in a small city apartments, and boys and girls and men and women fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. As you turn these pages of gleaming, stripped-down prose, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day will make you see the world in a whole new way-the way you did a long time ago, before you grew up and closed your eyes. Includes Ben Loory's New Yorker serialized story 'The TV'