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Ben Loory: Tales of Falling and Flying [Roughcut Edition] [2017] paperback FCRIM The neat compartments of his"Mesmerizing and magical. . . . A stunning book." NPR. org "Short stories so imaginative and yet so perplexingly familiar they could have formed in a dream. . . . Taut, meticulously balanced and written in Loory's direct, witty prose, his own stories take a page from Aesop: high flying tales nonetheless boiled down to the essentials." The Los Angeles Times "Ben Loory's stories are little gifts, strange and moving and wonderfully human. I devoured this