Several of the short stories included in Kevin Brockmeier's collection The View from the Seventh Layer are labeled by the author as 'fables'. It's a peculiar choice of labels—my handy reference book tells me that a fable is a short story designed to teach a moral lesson to children. But Brockmeier is a peculiar writer, and the odd titles of his tales ar…
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