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• in Entertainment
  Have a Holly, Jolly Haunting—with Ghostbusters Haunted Holidays
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  by missbobetier / on Dec 19, 2010
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  Best of LSU Fiction Is a Short-Fiction Treasure
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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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• The Gentle Wisdom of Anita Desai

  
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  “I never considered doing anything else but writing. It was all I ever wanted to do.” When I saw the name Anita Desai  on the AWRF 2013 programme, I knew I’d move heaven and earth to get to Auckland to see her. I first discovered her work in my 20s and have pounced with delight on any new title that’s ...
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• The Ready Feast – Guest Post by Jean Ryan, author of Survival Skills short story collection

  
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  The Ready Feast – Guest Post by Jean Ryan, author of Survival Skills short story collection I recently had the pleasure of reading a short story collection titled Survival Skills written by Jean Ryan. From my review: ‘Survival Skills is one of the more unique offerings I have come across in ...
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• Randy Ford Author- USA: CONTINENTAL DIVIDE . MARGO . ROUTE 40

  
  The Brainpan — Authority: 149
  USA: CONTINENTAL DIVIDE .  MARGO .  ROUTE 40 by Randy Ford CONTINENTAL DIVIDE As for their old Studebaker, Jack always missed it. When people talked about Studebakers they talked about it’s sleek design and advanced technology. As a mechanic, Jack’s … Continue reading →
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• Cold As Ice Part 8

  
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  The atmosphere grew colder as the clouds covered more and more of the planet, it was extending miles in front of Will, then it began to snow. Twenty five minutes had passed since the battle started and Will had decimated millions of the war machines and the cloud that was following him had almost completely [...]
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• 99 Words

  
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  Could you tell a story in just 99 words? Try your hand at your own miniature fiction for my weekly Monday feature. Anything goes, but must be exactly 99 words not including title. PM me your story, along with any links/bio you would like me to add. I look forward to reading your creations!
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• Review: Warlock Masters by Domingo Rhodes

  
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  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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• Terence y Tina. Hotel series

  
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  Terence, poeta aficionado con pánico a los aviones, nunca antes había estado fuera de su querido estado de Missouri, salvo un viaje de negocios a Philadelphia diez años atrás. Cuando su amiga y vecina Tina le sugerió un viaje a Espana e Italia para celebrar sus cincuenta y nueve cumpleaños, Terence puso el grito ...
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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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