Teen Pregnancy 2: Directed by Matthew Cleaves, Ben McNamara. With Tayla Gentle, Ben McNamara. 17-year-olds Craig and Jess are back with an update on their teenage pregnancy.
Not every short story idea is a good one. A good idea can make for a bad story, just like a mediocre idea can become a really good story. Rarely is a bad story idea going to become a great story, but it’s not impossible depending on the skills of the writer. Although there’s ...
4.9The Breach Watchlist 2.9Breach Watchlist 6.0Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story Watchlist 6.7Me and Bobby Fischer Watchlist 7.2La rupture Watchlist 7.0Pawn Sacrifice Watchlist 7.2In the Valley of Elah Watchlist 8.8The Penguin Watchlist 7.8Mr. McMahon Watchlist Storyline EditUser...
Here’s an excerpt I wrote about BAD ACCORDION music, taken from an unfinished short story. The main character, after a late evening of crazily sampling many other fast food restaurants in the dead of night (a spoof of John Cheever’sThe Swimmer), arrives at his final destination and waits...
PregnancyPregnancies by unwed teenagers leading to either a birth or an abortion lead to fewer years of completed education. Less education translates to lower wages and a corresponding decrease in labour supplied to the market. The empirical results for young women who give birth are similar to ...
Like everyone who’d lived in Jasper for the past couple of decades, Lauren was well versed in the details of her birth. Teenage pregnancies were hardly unusual, though in more recent years, sex ed had been ramped up in an effort to stem the tide. As her mother often reminded her, she...
“Orange” tells the recovery story of Lucas, a young firefighter who lost the ability to speak in a pyrotechnic accident. Sep 25, 2024 Sep 18, 2024 “Copy” by Cameron Gallagher Sep 18, 2024 A woman uneasy about her pregnancy learns the copier isn't just for paper. ...
Although these stories can be read as stand-alones, they have one thing in common: they’re all human-centred. They are emotional stories that leave you thinking about other people as well as your personal life. Before every story were illustrations that increased my anticipation for...
In common with the opening short story of this collection (“Big World”) the first person middle-aged male narrator of “Aquifer” returns to his younger years. Waking up to a news item on the TV, he thinks about childhood events which formed him. “Big World” covered teenage years and...
Yet it is also a story of shifts of fortune that such destruction brings about, allowing a few people who were completely separate before the war to mix, to change, not in some ideological sense, but in practical terms. Told in sentences that continually shifting mid sentence between the ...