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• in Entertainment
  Have a Holly, Jolly Haunting—with Ghostbusters Haunted Holidays
  Are you dreaming of a ghostly Christmas? Who ya’ gonna call?
  by missbobetier / on Dec 19, 2010
• in Entertainment
  Best of LSU Fiction Is a Short-Fiction Treasure
  Discover good —- as opposed to popular -— writing in BEST OF LSU FICTION.
  by missbobetier / on Dec 6, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “short stories”

 

• Digital Shorts Round-Up

  
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  The New Hunger I can safely say this is the best digital short I’ve read. It’s actually a full novella length at 160 pages and is a prequel to the utterly fantastic Warm Bodies . You will get more out of this by reading the novel first but it’s certainly not filler material. It follows Julie as she ...
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• Plain and perfect, rich and rare: what is "lyrical" writing?

  
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  A writer friend says that her MA tutor described her writing as "lyrical", and she asked what he meant. He said "something about lyrical writing remaking the world & making the world appear anew", but what does that mean in practice? At the basic level, "lyrical" means that it shares...
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• the woman on the hotel bed + the struggle in being faithful to one’s vision

  
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  I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the stories we tell and how we need to tell them. After taking in Sarah Polley’s documentary aptly titled, Stories We Tell , Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha , and re-reading Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem , I’ve been thinking about the convergence of art and ...
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• Download Family Tales The Sisters v1.0

  
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  Download Family Tales The Sisters v1.0:    Family Tales The Sisters v1.0  is available on  free softwares  downloading site  Axnsoft .  Over and over the same nightmare is following you: your sister Anna is trapped in a strange existence, begging you to help her escape. But what if these are not just random ...
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• Free Kindle Short Stories

  
  Free Stuff - Free Samples @ yoFreeSamples.com — Authority: 146
  Short stories and novellas are a great way to get a feel for an author’s work – and a great way to save money so you don’t buy a book you won’t like. Here are a few highly rated stories by famous authors to download for free on your amazon Kindle. Ring of Flowers A 46 page novella, Ring of Flowers is the ...
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• The Real Wild West – Nyksund, Vesterålen, Norway.

  
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  The narrow road is a roughed-out, potholed track gouged from ragged Norwegian mountains. Winding alongside a grey Arctic Ocean, it’s graced with the occasional passing bay and kept in place against northern tempests by discarded mountain boulders. Turning a last cliffside corner I stop the car and push open the ...
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• Jackie Kay – ‘What you can survive makes you stronger’

  
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  One of the highlights of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival 2013 for me has been discovering the work of British author Jackie Kay . How did I manage to live so long and not come across this woman? She is a multi-award winning poet, short story writer, memoirist and novelist. She writes for children. She’s ...
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• A Polar Bear Remembers

  
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  ‘There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.’ ~ A Study in Scarlet Read the preceding part ‘The Man from Baker Street‘ here. The story begins here in ‘Tell Me, Cleopatra!‘ ‘Yes, I am mad about books. And for a bookworm like me, it is sacrilege not to have heard […]
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• Cold As Ice Part 9

  
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  The weapons of the army charged, then fired at the block, but it wasn’t even scratched. Then they fired their missiles at the block hoping to shatter it and Will inside of it at the same time. The missiles hit and only cracked the block, then Will’s eyes opened. They had awoke him and the [...]
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• Poor Oral health sucks overall health

  
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  Rahul and Banti were neighbours. Both friends studied in the same school.They were toppers in their class. Rahul was hygienic and always regular and routine.But Banti was lazy.He always ignores and escapes from his work. Rahul brushes his teeth daily.But Bunti brushes only when his mother watches him.He ignores ...
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• Review: Warlock Masters by Domingo Rhodes

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 137
  Reviewed by Sandra Scholes For a short story collection, this has to be one of the shortest Ive read in the past few months, but that doesnt detract from the fact that these are very well-written and extremely erotic. There are four in this anthology: Alias Love Big Puerto Rican Brazillian German Cock Summer ...
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• A National Short Story Month reading list from Oxford World’s Classics

  
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  By Kirsty Doole In this month’s Oxford World’s Classics reading list, we decided to celebrate National Short Story Month by selecting some of favourite story collections. We have everything here from Gaskell to Cervantes, Fitzgerald to Kafka. But have we missed your favourite? Let us know. Exemplary Stories ...
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• Tales of the Jazz Age/ All the Sad Young Men by F Scott Fitzgerald – review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  These two collections of F Scott Fitzgeralds short stories, written only a few years apart, could not be more different Writing to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, about his second collection of short stories, F Scott Fitzgerald assured him that the title Tales of the Jazz Age would appeal to "the countless flappers ...
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• Rat Incense

  
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  Rat Incense Sissy Pantelis This story is from the Nightmare Book. The nightmare was described by the Troll Queen Shadowtrollia in her personal diary. "I am in a banquet at the Elf Palace with my two younger sons. Everything in this palace is weird: On the floor there are moonlight-beams shaped like a carpet. The ...
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• Mothers Day Special Story

  
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  By the time the Lord made woman, he was into His sixth day of working overtime. An angel appeared and said, "Why are you spending so much time on this one?" And the Lord answered, "Have you seen My spec sheet on her? She has to be completely washable, but not plastic, have over 200 movable parts, all replaceable and ...
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• The frozen Pond

  
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  On a wet and frosty afternoon, two kids were iceskating on a frozen pond. Suddenly the ice breaks under one of them and he is swallowed beneath. The other kid grabs a stone and starts to hit the ice vigorously until he was able to break it and take his friend out. When the local police arrived to the place and saw ...
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• 5 Ways Writing Short Stories Can Boost Your Writing Career

  
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  Until a few months ago, I had never written a short story for publication. But then I was commissioned to write three for the Kobo Descent competition based on Dante’s Inferno for the launch of Dan Brown’s new book, also called Inferno. I read about 50 stories and lots of information on how to write them ...
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• Mother’s Day Gift Idea: Chicken Soup for the Soul Books for a Spoonful of Inspiration Every Day!

  
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  Chicken Soup for the Soul books are perfect for busy moms because the inspirational short stories can be read in small nuggets of time. Pick one up for a little bedtime reading, while you’re waiting for the kids to emerge from school or practice, or as a lovely way to start out the day. The following books are ideal ...
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• Cold As Ice Part 1

  
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  “It’s been such a long day today; you know I really hate this planet. Can you believe it has forty hours of day light every day here?” Said Will, to his faith full companion, who just looked on at him as he continued to speak. “I always forget you can’t talk, thanks a lot brother [...]
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• Kurt Vonnegut on storytelling

  
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  Mr. V. sure knew how to spin a story The following eight points are Vonneguts clear-eyed advice to writers of short stories, and while it some of it -- like being a sadist -- doesnt exactly apply to business stories (LOL), much of it does. Get to the point, he says, create a rooting interest (a hero), and write ...
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