"Peter Biles has made these lean, lively, surprising stories lithe enough to perform a challenging but necessary one-two move: They push back with wry, dark humor against late American tendencies to monetize, commodify, and falsify experience; yet they also stretch beyond satire to demand a tender attention to the easily missed yet priceless beauties of an examined life. In one protagonist's words, 'Sometimes God shows us remarkable ordinaries just so we'll look.' Biles does, too." --Katy Carl, author of As Earth without Water "Writing with the distillate wisdom of parables, the lyricism of poetry, and the roofless imagination of a born storyteller, Biles deftly weaves magic carpets that ferry us through the invisible currents of human longing, our abiding need for connection, love, and grace. Few writers craft stories of such assurance, magic, and wonder. Every story is a brilliant gem, a gift shining just for you." --Gina Ochsner, author of The Hidden Letters of Velta B "Peter Biles is a writer of extraordinary gifts, a young artist with an old soul that's insightful and wise. His stories speak quietly yet sing, rendering people and the worlds they inhabit fully and resonantly; compact and unassuming yet bursting with emotional truth, with the purest kind of reality.

" --Robert Clark, author of Mr. White's Confession.