Benefits of infantsyouthful short stories to children hospitalized in the perspective of nursingdoi:10.5205/1981-8963-V6I10A7488P2463-2468-2012Elaine Cristina Rodrigues GesteiraElaine Cristina Dias FrancoElen Soraia Menezes CabralPatrícia Pinto Braga...
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stories, reviews, and articles for almost a decade before he attempted a full-lengthnovel. There had to be also the traditional “grand tour,” and James went abroad for his first adult encounter with Europe in 1869. His year’s wandering inEngland, France, and Italy set the stage for a...
OK, this one might be a bit of a controversial addition to a list of funny short stories, but I’m including it anyway. There’s something darkly humorous in this little tale about a man who goes too far in a plot for revenge only to have it backfire on him in the worst possible ...
For many years now, I’ve been posting short stories on Twitter. It’s a habit now: Before sitting down to write — my Hindi language ten-partAudible Original Thriller Factoryis up and running, written and directed under series director and presenterAnurag Kashyap’s stewardship with narrators...
It "dramatizes" two stories. It's all narrated by some guy. Full of homophobia and misinformation. If it weren't so sick it could be funny. I realize back in 1961 that homosexuality was still considered a mental illness but that doesn't excuse this. Supposedly this is still being shown...
Infants and children who are touched thrive and survive painful procedures more quickly than those who are not touched or held. You don’t have to be an older person or a child to benefit from touch. Occasionally, someone will pat my back or touch my arm on a stressful day, and I can...
It sounds so odd to phrase it this way that I’m a bit nervous about saying it, but here goes anyway: fantasy doesn’t make different stories possible, but sometimes it makes different outcomes possible, through the literalization of metaphor that is one of the key things fantasy does. Mo...
(I should’ve been—I was—clued in by an earlier, tossed-off joke, the opossum mother and her hilarious litter of tagalong infants, all pretending quite theatrically to die [“Meningitis takes time!” insists one], all to lampshade the importance of motherhood, or rather parenting, by ...
I’ve been busy with teaching at Victoria College, launching the Victoria University Centre for Creativity, and maybe even writing some short stories? Not to mention the world being on fire, of course. However, the school year is mostly wrapped up, and reading Domenica Martinello’s new ...