Nighttime Theme

“Stories for nighttime and some for the day” is a collection of fantasy short stories written by Ben Loory. This book contains 40 short stories and of them all, my personal favorites are “The Book”, “UFO: A Love Story”, and “The Snake in the Throat”. “The Book” is a story about a woman who goes insane about a book she had bought that she claimed had no writing in it. After not being able to return the book, she went on an absolute rampage as she sees other people reading it, and it becoming a best seller. This bothered her so much that she ranted on the television, radio show, and even wrote her own book about it. It took a man spitting in her face, to realize she created a mess and became a public enemy. She decided to give up on the book and put it away for a long time until one day while looking through her dead husband’s …show more content…
These are just a few stories out of “Stories for the Nighttime and Some for the day”, there are a variety of different stories within this book, each of them being a new story. Although the stories in the book are different, I did notice a few similarities and themes within them such as no characterization, all of the stories are fantasy based, each story deals with some sort of object, and there is extraordinarily, a lot of madness built into them. All the stories are pretty bizarre, and most of the story characters face some sort of issue and are bothered. I also noticed that the stories do not follow any sort of particular plot, they are completely random.
Ben Loory, Author of “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day”, is an American literary minimalist who according to Ben Loory’s website, benloory.com, “is a graduate of Harvard University and holds an MFA in Screenwriting from The American Film Institute.” Loory is also a professor at UCLA for an extensive writing program. Many of Loory’s stories have made appearances in several different publications including Tin