Understand the definition of a short story and examples, exploring its various features and characteristics. Discover the history of short story and its literature. Updated: 11/21/2023 What is a Short Story? Short stories are used in Literature classrooms everywhere, but the short story definitio...
Ask yourself this: What do I want my short story to be about? Jot that down. Do you already have a clear idea of who your characters are or the setting they’ll inhabit? Or are you starting with a theme you want to convey, and now you need to develop a story to express that the...
One last thing before we get to the 100 story ideas, let’s talk about how to write a great short story. (Already know how to write a great story? No problem. Just skip down to the ideas below.) First, read stories. If you’ve never read a story, you’re going to have a hard...
Sound the klaxons: our latest short story submission window is now closed! If you send in a short story now, it will be returned to you unread and we don’t like having to do that, so please just hold onto it until the next one opens in July. Some stats for those playing at ...
motion picture,motion-picture show,movie,moving picture,moving-picture show,pic,film,picture show,flick,picture- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was...
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We publish both fiction and narrative nonfiction (memoir) short stories, up to a limit of 3,500 words. We publish a wide array of styles and genres, and are more concerned with the quality of the story than the genre itself. A monthly e-zine, Story Unlikely pays 8 cents a word with...
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story The Birth-Mark, a chemist called Aylmer marries a young woman, Georgiana, whose only imperfection is a red spot on her left cheek. He considers it a “terrible flaw”. So she asks him to use his skills to remove it. At length Aylmer creates a medi...
My story is “The Coffee Shop Around the Corner,” my first M/F pairing. A brief description: Political discourse is Madeline Maloney’s jam. Social media manager for a progressive mayoral candidate, she finds her interest piqued by an email exchange with a local businessman—but also by th...
“Koala” represents Australian youths and Australian society while “Panda” symbolises China or any Chinese elements related. “Meet” means a personal perspective, through which we encourage participants to tell a story about their own experience or story.Text story submissions will be open from ...