How LA author Ben Loory came to write his heartbreaking fables
LOS ANGELES _ There was a time when Ben Loory lived at night.
That's how he puts it, as if night isn't a stretch of empty hours to endure, but a place to enter, to discover whole worlds inside. After dark, the grocery stores are empty and the streets are quiet and still. The city at night is a city through the looking glass, perfect for writing, as Loory does, short stories so imaginative _ and yet so perplexingly familiar _ they could have formed in a dream.
"I used to wake up at 5 in the afternoon and stay up all night and write," he said. "I still want to live at night; I just can't really do it anymore." Sipping
