These one hundred English stories give you a variety of interesting genres, from mystery, comedy, science fiction, thriller, and English history - combining learning and entertainment in a unique and fun way, all while you learn a range of...
Keep in mind that characters in children's stories should be relatable, but they need not be real. The three little pigs and the big bad wolf are hardly realistic characters. Imaginary characters work well in children's stories, and young children are often very willing to suspend their belie...
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32 World Building Prompts for Stories I hope your storytellers enjoyed this list of short story ideas for kids and have fun writing a great short story with these ideas Oh, and there are loads more story-writing ideas on my blog — from the romance genre to mystery, science fiction and be...
Favourites/Science Fiction/Short Stories/Short Stories for High School Temporal Supremacy Short Story “I invented time travel in 4000 BC. “Well, technically, now I did. I’m one of the few that knows the United States military invented time travel back in 2074. The reason... ...
Octavia Butler is, in my opinion, one of the greatest science fiction writers (see my review of her novel Kindred here), but she didn’t write many short stories. Those she did are excellent – imaginative, thought-provoking and worth seeking out. My favourite is Bloodchild, ...
My assumption, is most science fiction readers don’t particularly care for serious speculation about the future and would prefer to read stories that compel you to turn the pages because of tight plots and characters they care about. This is my second reading ofHoly Fire. I first read it ...
Following her poetry, Cronin offers a number of 99-word flash fiction stories, and then dives into her short stories for the bulk of the read. The short stories were my favorite part of the book as the author writes with a great deal of heart, which comes through beautifully in her ...
Most of the stories, however, lean to the tragic side. In a study of Davies’ fiction, Wynn Thomas has described Davies as “a deeply troubled man”: “To read these stories in bulk is to wonder at their bleakness….” There is perhaps no more obvious example of this than “The Boy...
These science fiction books have given me the most fun over my entire lifetime. I’ve reread them many times. They are how I epitomize science fiction. All by Robert A. Heinlein.Have Space Suit-Will Travel Tunnel in the Sky Time for the Stars The Rolling Stones Farmer in the Sky ...