Things That Fall from the Sky

{{Short description|Book by Kevin Brockmeier}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox book |  | name = Things That Fall from the Sky | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:ThingsThatFallFromTheSky.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Kevin Brockmeier | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Short stories | publisher = Pantheon Books | release_date = 2002 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (hardback & paperback) | pages = 224 pp | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Things That Fall from the Sky''''' is a collection of eleven short stories by American author Kevin Brockmeier.

"These Hands" was selected for ''Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards'', "The Ceiling" appeared in ''The O. Henry Prize Stories 2002'' (First Prize), and "Space" appeared in ''The Best American Short Stories 2003''.

==Stories== # ''These Hands'' (first appeared in ''The Georgia Review'') # ''Things That Fall from the Sky'' (first appeared in ''Crazyhorse'') # ''Apples'' (first appeared in ''The Chicago Tribune'') # ''A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin'' (first appeared in ''Writing on the Edge'') # ''The Ceiling'' (first appeared in ''McSweeney's'') # ''Small Degrees'' # ''The Jesus Stories'' # ''Space'' (first appeared in ''The Georgia Review'') # ''The Passenger'' # ''The Light through the Window'' # ''The House at the End of the World'' #

==External links== *[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/06/17/020617crbn_brieflynoted4 Review] at The New Yorker

Category:American short story collections Category:English-language books Category:2002 short story collections Category:Pantheon Books books