Note: Ben Loory is a writer of short stories, most of which are fables or absurd fantasies, and creative non-fiction, as well as a screenwriter and a musician. He is a member of the SFWA and the HWA. He is a graduate of Harvard University and earned an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Studies Institute. The following online stories have not yet appeared in print: * "The Reapers." Moon-Drenched Fables (September 15, 2009). * "The Rats in the Town Dump." Dogzplot (September 2009). link * "Aesop's Journey Through the Twilight Zone." Static Movement (September 21, 2009). * "Man Woman Egg Bird." Cantaraville 12 (October 2009). * "The Parable of the Pebbles." Weirdyear (October 18, 2009). link * "The Cigarette." PANK 4.12 (December 2009); Novembre Magazine (July 30, 2014). link * "The Pilot." Lit Up (December 18, 2009). link * "The Book of Jokes & Stories." MiCrow (Winter 2010). * "The Boxer." Red Fez (February 2010). link * "The Woman, the Vase, and the Flowers." Enchanted Conversation (April 10, 2010). link * "The Satellite." Xenith (April 24, 2010). * "The Assassin." Danse Macabre (April 25, 2010). * "Steel." Residential Aliens (May 1, 2010). * "The Drunk." Cabinet des Fées 10 (May 18, 2010). link * "Thorns." BLIP Magazine (Spring 2011). * "Rain." The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (June 8, 2015).