Here are some free short stories to read online. These very short stories are perfect for high school or middle school students or anyone who loves reading.
some sad, moving and clever. It was interesting to read these pieces by unknown writers, although some have been published elsewhere, and many hint at the potential for real success with a writing career.
The connections are of two kinds: thematic connections for which the credit goes to the script, and also visual connections whereby the direction and editing employed by Altman allow him to create recurring imagery with which he weaves the sprawling, kicking constituent bits and pieces of this ...
pieces are short, they go by quickly, and each has its own topic and theme. The main thought throughout the book would seem to be the path traveled when the truth is revealed. The characters face speaking kindly in an unkind situation, putting their life before a broken child, keepi...
B. (TRANSLATOR) Un Pastelliste Exquis: Selected Poems and Prose GBP 40.001495747910 CAREW THOMAS Poems GBP 12.001495750139 REICHHOLD JANE (EDITOR); CLAUSEN TOM (JUDGE) Tanka Splendor: Mirrors International Tanka Award Judge's Choice 1999 GBP 7.001495747909 FARMER JOHN S. (EDITOR) The Maid's ...
First published in 1948 inThe New Yorker,“The Lottery” is now a classic often taught in school curriculum. In her signature, haunting prose,Shirley Jacksonwrites of a small town with an annual lottery where one resident is chosen at random. But we do not know what the fate of being cho...
Sleep, of course, forms another obvious element of the nocturnal realm, along with one of slumber’s mortal enemies: offspring. In her poem “nightly rodeo”, Michelle Penn crafts a delightful lyric metaphor for this sort of challenge to sleep. Two prose pieces – the fictional “Acetaminophen...
During the first part of the session, participants will write miniature prose pieces inspired by the fiction we’ve read. In the second half we’ll work on openings and outlines of longer stories. These can be continued after the session. ...
He wondered while he laughed. “Oh but what does SHE deserve?” It was her gravity that continued to answer. “Yes–it would probably kill her.” “She believes so in you?” Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Share on
This is the background atmosphere of one group of Kneale’s stories; call them the local pieces. “Tomato Cain” itself, “The Excursion,” and “The Putting-away of Uncle Quaggin” have (for instance) a naturalism not unworthy of Maupassant : the supernatural never raises its head, but ...