Ferguson, Suzanne C., "Defining the Short Story: Impressionism and Form", Modern Fiction Studies 28 (1982) Spring, 13-24.Ferguson, Suzanne C. 1982. "Defining the Short story: Impressionism a...
A coworker of mine recently got a new video camera and created a short movie about his trip to Mexico. He had software that made the video look spectacular. The opening credits looked like a movie you'd see in a theater. He had music, voiceover, and even some special effects....
Defining Moment: A Short Story I felt my heart stop. This audition would determine what I will spend the rest of my year doing. Making it would mean that I spend the year working on jazz music. I take a deep breath and listen to my starting note, a C. I open my mouth to sing ...
In short: if it’s part of a language system and communicates meaning, linguists consider it to be “a real word.” But it’s illogical/ugly/stupid. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it somehow “not real.” This is one of the more absurd notions that people have about...
Moving To Maine: A Short Story It began with a small town and a small house. Until about 12 years of age I lived an average kids childhood in Alfred, Maine. Everyone was kind, I had birthday parties, friends were always over, I loved sports, especially basketball. Most of all, I was...
The day’s speeches have ended and conference-going night revelers are about. The indoor balcony to my 12th-floor room faces, as the hotel website accurately boasts, a “spectacular 18-story glass atrium.” My balcony door is open wide, and the bustling din from several parties across the...
The human heart,which has a mass of about 300 grams, pumps blood throughout the body. A non-defining relative clause can also continue a story by saying what happened next: I called my mother,who became very upset.(I called my mother, and she became very upset.) ...
“sea”), which inspired us to leverage the globally recognized English word “Hi.” As a greeting, “Hi” is believed to have originated in the early 1900s as a short form of “Hello,” gaining popularity in the 1920s and 1930s in the United States before becoming a universally ...
We occupied the Philippines since 1898, until 1991, and a short few years later were asked to return in light of perceived ChiCom threats in the South China Sea. We still have a major military presence in South Korea, along with Japan (Okinawa) and Germany, where there have been no activ...
I always go to check myself, to make sure nothing’s inside that’s not supposed to be — and there was. So that’s why I started flipping out, and he just stuck to his story that he done it and the condom stayed on, and he didn’t do anything wrong. (Jessica, USA, various)...