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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “short stories”

 

• 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

  
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  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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• Tell Me, Cleopatra!

  
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  She was not a friend, nor a classmate, nor a social sibling –the veil under which some people fraternised in the college. We were graduating in the same year and we both had English Literature and she was in the other section further down the hallway. Although the timings for the classes were the same […]
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• How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part IX)

  
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  Three years Greece in the crisis do not frustrate only the Greeks. Expats who permanently or temporarily live here seem to be not shielded from the crisis, even  when it comes just to develop a critical approach to Greeks who change under the new circumstances. Below the story submitted by Sian : “I moved to ...
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• Rites of Return – African Burial Ground, Lower Manhattan, New York, USA

  
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  Just off Broadway I’m in a side street by City Hall, the ubiquitous New York crowds somehow missing, the hum of traffic vague and distant. A lonesome monument sits silent and tucked in the shadow of City Planning offices and a 30-storey Federal skyscraper; that building’s construction leading to the 1991 discovery ...
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• ‘Bartimeus’ in war-time

  
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  Before the War, Bartimeus’s stories had mostly been pictures of everyday naval life , tinted with a nostalgia for the service from which his disability had excluded him. They were collected in his first book, Naval Occasions , which was published in August 1914; after this, his writing would change. He immediately ...
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• Remembering Saadat Hasan Manto

  
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  Vidyarthy Chatterjee remembers Saadat Hasan Manto on his 101st birth anniversary Saadat Hasan Manto May 11, 1912-January 18, 1955 I f Saadat Hasan Manto had been living, he would have been a centenarian, thirty-five years older than the Indian nation he loved deeply and which he did not wish to leave for an ...
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• Liz Gordon wins following her own advice: Submit, submit, submit!

  
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  HALLIE EPHRON: Liz Gordon wowed me and Lucy a few years ago at Seascape Writers Retreat with the her novel. Afterward, as she continued to polish and revise, she did something really smart. She wrote short stories. Smarter still, instead of sticking them in a drawer she submitted them to contests. Her latest ...
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• A Science Fair

  
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  A Science Fair Nancy Duci Denofio The brain holds folder after folder of information from our past, and as a writer we pick and choose what may entertain or bring back memories to our reader. Angies Diary Angies Diary - Online Stories & Articles
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• The Plastic Sea (part IV)

  
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  Dennis could not carry the man far, but he needed to carry him far enough so that if he did not expire immediately there was no chance he could crawl back to their raft and alarm the women.  Dennis had no idea what the man’s idiot wife would do if she saw her husband in his current, and obviously, terminal state.  ...
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• The Drakness Within Part 2

  
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  Oh look it’s time for me to get to work anyway, the moon’s are almost on me now just a minute or two and they should be here. I would take a deep breath and brace myself for the hit but seeing how I’m currently floating through the vast nothingness of space that will not [...]
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• Millionaire - Journey of an Idea

  
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  "I wasnt born a Man, I became one, I wasnt born Intelligent, I became one, I wasnt born Entrepreneur, I became one, I wasnt born a Millionaire, I became one." - Raj And so, with these ambitious lines I start my story. To begin with, it was tough time back then, recession hindered my chances of getting a ...
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• Experience in Writing Short Stories and Novels

  
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  Experience in Writing Short Stories and Novels. This post comes from mystery author Jan Christensen . She’s a writer that has experience in writing shorts stories and novels.   When I first made a firm decision to become a  writer, I decided that writing short stories could teach me a lot about how to ...
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