How To Use Short story In A Sentence
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If you are a Nature subscriber, or willing to pay the weregild, my short story "Annie Webber" is live there today.
Anonymous moves into the real world, calling for flash-crowd style protests on February 10th.
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At the back door, out of inexorable necessity, in developed and convincingness and sincerity laid down by all authorities on the art of the short story.
Confession
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Though I was on friendlier, more relaxed and affectionate terms with my fellow western-New Yorker John Gardner, who'd published an early short story of mine titled "The Death of Mrs. Sheer" in his literary magazine "MSS" -- and who regarded me, somewhat embarrassingly, as a "major American writer" -- like himself -- it can't be said that John Gardner was a mentor of mine either.
Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine
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Of course, we went to Gallipoli, and may I tell you one short story of an occurrence in Gallipoli -- a true story.
The Outlook of Empire
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an old short story by Washington Irving.
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This short story was published by two journals of repute.
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As a master of the short story, Katherine Mansfield's distinctive narrative art is her main contribution to the development of the short story.
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She wants to move on to the short story, but I see her father's ghost is still unappeased.
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I've used it as a writing sample before and it's scored me three freelance jobs with its copious merit; but every time I submit it to a short story market, the verdict is always, This is great, but it's too long for our format.
June 30th, 2005
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Greta Christina is the editor of Best Erotic Comics 2008, and the author of "Deprogramming," an erotic short story from my new anthology.
Boing Boing
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H.G. Wells wrote a disturbing short story called 'Aepyornis Island' in 1894.
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Ironically, the action is over a short story concerning a previous libel action.
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The pleasure of the language of a good short story is almost musical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Asher has previously published four other works, two novellas and two short story collections, Gridlinked is his first full length novel.
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A person I went to school with, Janna Underinner, is now working with one of the Oregon Coast reservations (it may be the Grand Ronde reservation) to make Chinook wawa their language (I'm a little fuzzy about the exact situation), so your short story would be good, but my impression is that Chinook Jargon is based on Nuuchanuulth which is Wakashan, not Salishan.
Languagehat.com: ANYONE FOR SALISHAN?
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The other stories too reflect the vibrancy and dynamism of the short story as a form that constantly offers something new in craft, technique and theme.
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Prior to this 5 papers about history, culture, folk-lore and language of Gujjars were presented in the paper reading sessions fallowed by a short story reading session in which 4 latest short stories were presented
Gujjar writers adopts resolution for inclusion of Gojri into Indian Constitution
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What do you love about the short story format?
The Sun
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It's roomier, messier, more tolerant than a short story.
A Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri
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Despite its comparative shortness, the short story is open to both the random and the absolutely determined to an extent that would founder most novels.
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This short story allows of several different interpretations
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Mansfield, born in turn-of-the-century New Zealand, was one of the first modern short story writers to fuse prose and poetry.
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H.E. Bates, in his book The Modern Short Story, first published in 1941, noted that even in the 1920s and '30s it was said that the short story was unwanted, unprinted, and unread.
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The short story "Ein Landarzt" is a typical work of Franz Kafka , which tells an incredible story, and it is difficult to find out the meaning of this story.
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We know of nothing so agonizing upon Earth -- we can dream of nothing half so hideous in the realms of the nethermost hell," he wrote in the short story "The Premature Burial.
A Man Called Freud
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Sometimes it's a nice break from the Martin tome, and I can read a short story in two breaks.
Reading is My Buffet Table
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The book has been developed from a short story.
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Runyon was a master of the short story.
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Baird who has studied mythology since she was a child equips every card with a musing short story on its back cover.
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Publishers, agents and editors are always talking about how short story collections and anthologies don't sell very well.
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the idea for the book grew out of a short story
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On the theory that post-novel ennui is inevitable, and I really only have one more short story to finish in the near future, I did a bad thing.
Just drive safely.
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Like you might read a Greek play and initially identify the basic agon and the key moment of anagnorisis, you might read an SF short story and initially identify the most obvious alethic quirks.
Modality and Hamlet
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Bret Harte is a prominent American Western short story writer, renowned for his refreshing frontier humor infused in enriching Californian literature.
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Dude octupled his rate by going from the novel to short story format.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's word rate
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A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length, although the term is often misused to indicate a short story of less than 1000 words.
Color Me Drabbled | Living the Liminal
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I have an idea for a short story that could develop...and I have an idea for a fascinating character based on a real person who I'd love to write into a book...a conflict-engineering virus of a person, a manipulator, insinuator, psychic bottom-feeder, a lonely monster whose elastic mind has stretched too far and is starting to unravel...
NaNoWriMo
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Editor’s Note: A well written obit is the equivalent of a fine essay or short story.
Garrison keillor | when your brother dies « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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The short story goes its way without taking much notice of these signposts.
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Then Donna Scott at a small magazine called Visionary Tongue asked me to write a short story, so I used it as a test-bed to play around with the idea of clockwork vampires.
Interview with Andy Remic (Interviewed by Mihir Wanchoo)
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Each and every short story contained in Gratia Placenti is, at the least, quite good, with many being truly memorable.
For the Sake of Pleasing a reviewer...
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Indian, not Native American, is how his book blurbs describe him: in one short story in this collection a character dryly observes that ‘Native American’ is an oxymoron.
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In the final stages of emphysema he summoned up the energy to make his final film, a British-German-American co-production based on an elegiac short story.
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The short story is often considered to be a sort of poor relation to the novel.
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We're trying to discern the difference between a short story, a vignette, a novella, and a novelette.
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With the purpose of making better known a disappearing craft, the author of the article presents also a short story of coopery.
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Anyway, the platypus is reminding me that I need to email my agent and my editor, and that I have a short story to write, and that the day is slipping away.
"There's someone in our dreams, in our preassembled dream..."
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He chopped the short story by two paragraphs.
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Entries have also been flowing in for the Young Achiever of the Year Award, and for the short story, creative writing and photography competitions.
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Each week, two participants will email a short story or novel excerpt to the entire class, to be read and critiqued the following week.
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It made me realise what sort of short story I enjoy: a story with a lot of worldbuilding where information needed to understand 'what's going on' comes out in the course of the plot; a story which has 'real' characters with 'real' issues other than to solve what the heck is going on *in just this story*.
Synopsis writing
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I’d love to read a short story invlolving the mother seeing Beth’s photo, with her skin dyed prown.
CHOCOLATE MILK • by Ladonna A. Watkins
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Pelecanos has written 16 crime novels that span the last few decades of the city's life, while Jones, while he's best known for his single novel, The Known World, set in antebellum Virginia, is beloved by residents of the District for his two brilliant short story collections, Lost in the City and All Aunt Hagar's Children.
Books of the States
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Yet whenever I hear someone stand up in public with a poem or short story in their hand which they then preface with a lengthy disclaimer about its imperfections, I cannot help sniffing false modesty.
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In the old days, even short story writing was lucrative enough to merit gimcrackery classified ads.
February 2008
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The central question of the survey asked if a person, over the last 12 months, read any part of any novel, short story, poem, or play - excluding material required for work or school.
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I would argue, however, that to some degree this decline is a product of SF being too successful (see also my prior post on the death of the sf short story).
2009 August « Hyperpat’s HyperDay
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Cool news for writers: In association with Authonomy, Angry Robot is running a competition to write a short story set in Lauren Beukes 'Moxyland universe.
August 2009
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The tasks are often to write a short story under a certain amount of words.
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Best short story (other): (TIE) Tuesday Night at the Jazz Club from Autobiographix, by Diana Schutz and Arnold Pander (and it's just 3 pages); and Michael Chabon's Mister Terrific story in JSA All-Stars (lovely structure, pacing and characterization)
Archive 2003-12-01
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In its Victorian and Edwardian heyday the ghost story almost always meant a short story.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is the extreme of the modern tendency toward dramatic narrative, and is just a little too "stagey" and artificial to be a perfect short story.
Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story
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While I was researching a short story, I gradually fell in love with the hula (dancing).
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Most American short story writers are bad because they copy "O. Henry," and most English short story writers are bad because they copy Chekhov.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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A.I. is based on a short story by Brian Aldiss that illustrates the isolation inherent in an overpopulated, high-tech world.
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Back on the warm sand, I lay down on my stomach, pencil in hand ready to write my short story.
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His book originated from a short story.
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Eugenio (the goatherd telling the story) and Amselmo (not the character from the short story) are both seeking her hand in marriage and are both considered suitable.
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‘The book is about growing old as a man,’ says short story writer, novelist and playwright Carl Nixon.
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Such uncomprehensive handling of the category made me feel sad -- not only for myself, but for every other novelist who took the time and care this past year to contribute something more substantial than a short story to the genre.
Del, Ellen, Kim, Joe, DJS and I (and Kasey)
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Bill and Al's flourishing line of bimonthly comics brought the dead-of-night short story to lurid, four-color life.
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A good short story is hellish hard to write, so you can agonize over them, but most of the time I'm done with the first draft in a week.
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I don't think I'd take that deal, given the many short story opportunities even an author at my level has that pay right now, and package me in advantageous ways.
Salute Your Shorts
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The short story has made little technical advance since the first successes of "O. Henry," though the talent of many observers has dealt with new material offered by the racial characteristics of European immigrants and by new phases of commerce and industry.
The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters
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This year Bealtaine has launched a short story competition which will be adjudicated by the eminent writer and editor David Marcus.
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John Cheever was one of the most prominent American short story writers in the twentieth century.
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It ends poignantly but perfectly, like a well-crafted short story.
Times, Sunday Times
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In John Lanchester's short story "Expectations" in the Jan. 9 New Yorker magazine, his 2007 banker-protagonist's "considered view of the Damien Hirst spot painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus V.A.T.
Spotting the State of Art
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The second movement is a scherzo, in the form of a short story.
Times, Sunday Times
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As narrative goes, this is effectively a short story.
Times, Sunday Times
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A.I. is based on a short story by Brian Aldiss that illustrates the isolation inherent in an overpopulated, high-tech world.
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Katherine Mansfield makes great contribution to short story writing with her pioneering creation technique.
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Although the end is enigmatic like a short story, the film's strength is in its dialogues full of irony.
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Unlike many short story authors, Oates writes interestingly about a vast range of subjects, and has the skill with which to make her tales truly mesmerising.
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Small in scope, minutely focused on the emotional dynamics of a gaggle of neurotic urban characters, shot in dark, unslick images and wholly bereft of special effects, Baumbach's closely observed tale of dysfunctional family relationships has the microscopic texture of a New Yorker short story and the darting, spontaneous style of a French New Wave movie.
Here There Be Monsters
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He expanded his short story into a book.
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The book also contains a reprint of a funny science fiction short story, ‘Roll Over Beethoven,’ written by Cooper and Larry S. Haverkos.
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There's work, sometimes agonizing, but there is nothing like finally finishing a short story or a novel, holding it in your hands, and for awhile being completely satisfied, enchanted, and euphoric.
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A good short story is a fictional vision which, in its optimal form, happens to have a short page count.
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While struggling to read a short story one afternoon, I get fixated on the word birdsong.
The Memory Palace
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It seems an appropriate time (if there is one) to share this bit of doggerel from a short story by William Sanders:
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Joan Kremer is a professional business/non-fiction writer, novelist, short story writer, and editor of an online literary journal, Cezanne’s Carrot.
Podcast: Joan Kremer on Writing and Authors in Second Life | The Creative Penn
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Deledda's recurrent image of corruptibility is also found in "While the East Wind Blows," the short story published on this web site, in which the peasants harbor the futile dream of not being reduced to ashes, non essere ridotti in cenere.
Grazia Deledda: Voice of Sardinia
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Group 3 read the short story with the tested vocabulary and used the monolingual English dictionary while taking the same multiple-choice test.
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Nothing about Appalachia makes it memorable or distinct, except perhaps the setting, though a reader can find the same setting for a religious dystopia in Lon Prater's 2005 short story, "Deadglass.
Archive 2008-08-01
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In her prize-winning short story "Jungfrau", the politics are woven into the story of a complicated family: a distant father, a mother who throws herself into the lives of the underprivileged children she teaches, an aunt who throws everyone off balance, mesmerizing the young narrator with a sexuality the child only half understands - and half fears.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In this sense, she reflects the same concerns as another emblematic mother-daughter short story cycle, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
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The following is taken from Rumer Godden's short story "The Oyster," about a young Indian, Gopal, of the Hindu Brahmin caste, who is happily studying in France and learning all things western.
Archive 2009-07-01
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The first work of mine to be published in a book wasn't a short story or a novel.
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The book has been developed from a short story.
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She has also won acclaim as a short story writer, with one of her collections being aired on TV as a prime time serial.
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Tobias Wolff is a short story writer, a memoirist, a novelist, a father, a husband, a jazz aficionado, a hiker upon remote mountain trails, a winner of literary awards, a neophyte pianist, and the mentor of many young writers.
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Famous in his lifetime as a journalist, literary editor, autobiographer and short story writer, he is now out of print and increasingly forgotten.
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Like you might read a Greek play and initially identify the basic agon and the key moment of anagnorisis, you might read an SF short story and initially identify the most obvious alethic quirks.
Modality and Hamlet
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He can whack out a short story every week.
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Bill and Al's flourishing line of bimonthly comics brought the dead-of-night short story to lurid, four-color life.
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I became a short story writer instead of continuing as a poet when I saw that Scalapino called her glinting narratives poems.
"at 'night' any night is can't"
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A short story I wrote last night well, one long paragraph last week and then a phone call interrupted me so I had to wait till I had time to trance in again, "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz Jesus Christ" will be published in Dark Faith, The Mo*Con Anthology to be published next year.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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In a short story, two teenagers stumble on a police torture chamber, growing fascinated, then bored.
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Strictly speaking, the book is not a novel, but a short story.
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But it did spark a curiosity that itched until she completed a short story.
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Of course, one of the problems with adapting a short story into a feature length film is the necessity to stretch and pad the story out.
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- Mark iambics, iambs, trochees, phyiries, spondees, choriambs, cesura, elision Does anyone have any good / interesting ideas or plots lines for a short story? en Español
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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One of the things that you can do with your students is have them create an "animatic" storyboard animation of a classic short story.
This Week at Westwood: Horizon Evolves, Digiteen Begins
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Fortune smiled upon him, however, when short story ‘To the Man on Trail’ was published soon after in Overland Monthly in 1899.
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I grabbed the tacks and placed Mary Jean's short story about a "Jade Tiger," Jessica's award-winning patriotic essay about the American flag, and Sarah's essay on students treating each other hurtfully, on the bulletin board.
Randy Turner: These Are My Students; This Is My School
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I wrote a short story a good few months ago and my main character haunts me, I'm kind of in love with her (very narcissistic because in a way she is me).
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Chekhov's short story ‘Peasants' harrowingly captures the nastiness, brutishness and shortness of life in a village of the time.
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The short story cycle looks back to oral traditions of narrative while embodying signs of modernity.
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But in the eyes of this grizzled, embittered old observer, the all-time masterpiece is a short story written by Gene Hill.
Uncategorized Blog Posts
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This short story was published by two journals of repute.
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Before the First World War, the short story was detective fiction's predominant literary form.
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In Robert Bloch’s short story "The Unforgivable Sin", mopery is the titular indiscretion
BLAH BLAH JLA FLASH ADAM BRODY BLAH
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The character of Selina Davis in Jazz - which is adapted from a short story by Jean Rhys - is a prime example.
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He chopped the short story by two paragraphs.
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Most American short story writers are bad because they copy "O. Henry," and most English short story writers are bad because they copy Chekhov.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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And their index is the ultimate resource for finding that short story you've heard about ..
Sfsignal on LocusMag.com!
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Three Junes grew over several years, like a tree -- organically and at first in odd, sporadic bursts -- starting out as a short story called "Souvenirs," which was based on an experience I had while traveling in Greece after college.
A Conversation with Julia Glass, author of Three Junes
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Moreover, the narrative structure of short story cycles mirrors the episodic and unchronological method of oral narration.
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And now the rain has reached the mountaintop, and the ridgeline is all translucent behind a veil of rain and mist, and I have a really good short story to read.
This is really nice right here.
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What is true of the theatre is also true of the short story.
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He expanded his short story into a book.
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The short story also foreshadows Hemingway's fascination with blood, spectacle and bullfights.
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I'll let you enjoy the silly stuff over there; here I want to highlight one paragraph about finding new words and usages on the internet:That's where Oxford lexicographer Erin McKean has found words like farb (not authentic, badly done), nomenklatura (non-literally; by analogy), drabble (a short story of 100 words or fewer), haxie (a hack for the Macintosh operating system) and swancho (a combination poncho/sweater).
Languagehat.com: NOMENKLATURA?
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And then, for a short story I fix my eye on the end point and let the rest happen; for a novel I kind of wallow, and try to keep the process playful and not-a-chore and not close off too many possibilities.
Children's Lit Fabulosity
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Katherine Mansfield makes great contribution to short story writing with her pioneering creation technique.
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A part of one of my courses requires that I do some creative short story writing… yuck!
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Oh, and I sold (or maybe "resold," depends on whether or not the editor decides that the New Wyrd chapbook counts) my short story "Jawbone of an Ass" to "SHE NAILED THE STAKE THROUGH HIS HEAD: TALES OF BIBLICAL HORROR," which is being published by Dybbuk Press (editor Tim Lieder.)
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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The novel is Barnes's first foray into the genre after a long flirtation with flash fiction and the longer short story.
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With the release of Quantum of Solace, a title lifted from a Fleming short story, the Bond well has just about run dry.
MI6 :: 007 News
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As narrative goes, this is effectively a short story.
Times, Sunday Times
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Runyon was a master of the short story.
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Rip Van Winkle by the famous American short story writer, Washington Irving, tells how a man called Rip Van Winkle was bullied by his wife, Dame Van Winkle.
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As narrative goes, this is effectively a short story.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think it has a beautiful resolution and, unlike the case with a traditional short story, the limited word length often forces some of these elements to remain unwritten, that is, hinted at or implied in the written storyline.
A PERFECT ENVELOPE • by Maria H. McDonald
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Updike's short story lines up four episodes, all told from a different point of view.
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Sci-Fi writer Robert A. Heinlein first used the term moonbat in his short story Space Jockey.
Brent Hoff: The "I'm The Moonbat?" Quiz
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Reading the text as a short story cycle and not just a collection reveals Lahiri's careful balancing of a range of representations and her intricate use of pattern and motif.
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Basic premise of the short story was: girl tracks down demon who framed her boggart father of murder.
FINALLY
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She didn't want to write another novel immediately, so the short story is the perfect form.
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This wretched, self-serious, self-righteous, pointless bit of science fiction detritus is based on a short story universally acknowledged as a classic of the genre, "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Henry Kuttner and Katherine L. Moore.
Movie Review: The Last Mimzy
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If the short story is well suited to disregarded minorities, it is also tuned to the disappointed mainstream.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Runyon was a master of the short story.
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Just go to this link and find a short story that sends the shivers down to your skivvies.
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It's solitary, it's compulsive, it's expensive, and I tend toread a short story or novel and imagine that the fictionalproblems are my own, living half in Andre Dubus's character'ssadness and half in my own life.
Amanda Eyre Ward about the genesis of her short stories, including those collected in Love Stories in This Town, and how her writing style has evolved over the years.
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He can whack out a short story every week.
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I was not the first to notice the similarity between this life and Kipling's short story.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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I was not the first to notice the similarity between this life and Kipling's short story.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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His book originated from a short story.
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The pleasure of the language of a good short story is almost musical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strictly speaking, the book is not a novel, but a short story.
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In fact, he added some passionate smooching - set not long after the men's initial coupling - that was in neither the short story nor the script.
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Still, I managed to begin polishing the final draft of “Halves” and revised an old short story called “Full of It” (for a reprint appearance).
Weekend – Brian Keene
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It is easiest to write the first draft all in one go - then you sustain the mood of the short story.
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Fiction also earned her some public recognition, including the 1952 South-German Radio Prize for best short story (for Chinesische Wäscherei [Chinese Laundry], shared with Heinrich Böll), and the 1965 Katherine Mansfield Prize for Les Confessions d’un moineau du siècle (Confessions of One of this Century’s Sparrows).
Claire Goll.
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The final section of each book has a short story, the two by Rayner being decidedly ordinary (the one in the Rose book is tediously educational on philately), but the two by Cole much better - his story at the end of the Sycorax book retells The Christmas Invasion from the monster's point of view, which is a welcome shift of perspective and carried off smoothly.
Linkspam for 2-7-2009
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Mostly he uses his surgeon's instinct to follow the dictum of the great American short story writer Raymond Carver: ‘Get in and get out fast.’
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This is a very short story, Flash Fiction, if you will that treads on the edge of being antidotal.
Archive 2008-07-01
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It turns out that Honoel Ibardolaza, one of the creators in Ab Ovo 2, is a Palanca Awardee in the Short Story for Children category in 1998.
Archive 2003-05-01
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On the evidence of this book, she's not quite ready to publish either a short story collection or a volume of poems.
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Aussenhof means outer court, which is what the English call a bailey, so the character is called “George Bailey,” and suddenly, a Kafka short story is transformed, with mad logic, into It’s a Wonderful Life.
Gun, With Occasional Music « Gerry Canavan
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Your wardrobe’s a mess; the hamper is full; your credit rating is sinking; your mother in law is languishing; your aunt is needy; the bathroom is grungy; the kitchen floor is sticky; the short story stinks; the car is a mess; I’m hungry.
2008 June « Becca’s Byline
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The winners of the Sid Chaplin short story competition named after the Shildon-born writer were announced at the town's civic centre.
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Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of a short story has produced spine-tingling chills in readers - or listeners - for more than 150 years.
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a short story
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A review (and a confession) « In The Gloaming Podcasts
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the play was a dramatization of a short story
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The novel is an expansion of a short story he wrote about forty years ago.
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Best Estonian Short Story: Laur Craft, “Ultima Cthule” [sic, I believe the apparent pun is intended]
British Fantasy Award Rules Changes
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In the original series of Star Trek, there was an episode called 'Arena' (based on a non-Trek short story) in which Kirk and an alien ship captain of the Gorn race have to fight each other, and Kirk improvises a cannon and shoots the Gorn (but refuses to kill him ....)
Mythbusters tests Star Trek Gorn cannon
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The failed poet writes short stories, and the failed short story writer writes novels.
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Poul Anderson's short story "The Man Who Came Early" pits an ordinary modern with a gun against the successful merchants and political leaders of a pre-gun society -- and the ordinary man discovers a technological marvel is no match for high-level social sophistication.
MIND MELD: The Tricky Trope of Time Travel
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This virtuoso short story collection is emotionally uncompromising and stylistically daring.
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Although one might hope that Robison would again concentrate more of her attention on the short story, the form in which I believe her best work is to be found, it neverthelesswill be interesting to seeif she can continue to apply her miniaturist skills tocompelling effect in whatever future novels she may write as well.
Dashed to the Ground
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Following, is compiled some tell tale signs that your flash fiction or short story is attempting to flex its literary muscles and overgrow your files and time and demand to become a novel.
Is your short story begging to be a Novel? « Write Anything
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The short story writers I have enjoyed most recently are Etgar Keret and Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Still wish I could remember the name of that short story as it reminds me of another generation of craftsmen from a diffrent era that took pride in their workmanship versus our present generation of a "throw it away consumer society".
The Importance Of Fit And Finish
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‘It was a short story which I turned into a playlet,’ he explains gleefully.
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It's as if the Catholic Church created a very clever way to get everyone back into the fold, where their prior ecumenical movements failed (I think I'll write a conspiracy short story wherein the Protestants get "singularized" by Marianism or Marianology or whatever it is really called).
Mary in the margins
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Moreover, the narrative structure of short story cycles mirrors the episodic and unchronological method of oral narration.
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As Gilman points out, in a short story this would be the moment where she'd realize that the idol of her dreams was in fact a lewd creep.
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In Irving's short story, the Hessian was killed by a cannon ball rather than a bunch of puny colonials.
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After the First World War public taste shifted away from the short story to the novel-length tale.
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As narrative goes, this is effectively a short story.
Times, Sunday Times
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This prescient short story, published in Blackwood's magazine, described how, after the fall of France, the German army would invade and grind Britain under its jackboot for all eternity.
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Let's consider his latest among a representative sample of 2004's notable short story collections.
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And discovered that what I needed to be a 2k-word vignette is determined to be a 4k-word short story.
Mabon '09
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The title comes from a short story by Ian Fleming that is apparently in the style of Maugham.
Archive 2008-11-01
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The short story as a form thrives on a more elliptical and lighter style.
The Times Literary Supplement
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A person I went to school with, Janna Underinner, is now working with one of the Oregon Coast reservations (it may be the Grand Ronde reservation) to make Chinook wawa their language (I'm a little fuzzy about the exact situation), so your short story would be good, but my impression is that Chinook Jargon is based on Nuuchanuulth which is Wakashan, not Salishan.
Languagehat.com: ANYONE FOR SALISHAN?
