Why we love it: Hughes tackles race and discrimination in a story about a community that reverses a decision to award a local teen a scholarship when they learn that she is Black. It’s a compelling and troubling story that ends with a note of inspiration and is rich for discussion. 30....
In spite of his lack of enthusiasm for the bureaucracy, his years as a civil servant were the happiest of his life. He devoted much of his spare time to swimming and to boating expeditions on the Seine. One can see from a story like Mouche (1890; Fly) that the latter were more than...
Blog https://storyshiv.blogspot.com/?m=1 + Follow Blog StoryShiv brings bold and thought-provoking narratives to the forefront, weaving together compelling short stories that challenge conventions and spark introspection. The blog serves as a canvas for diverse storytelling, where plot twists, sharp...
The short story, if you really are intense and you have an exciting idea, writes itself in a few hours. I try to encourage my student friends and my writer friends towrite a short story in one day so it has a skin around it, its own intensity, its own life, its own reason for ...
The following short story, Spurs by Tod Robbins, is the work which Freaks is based upon. Tod Browning used another story of Tod Robbins' for the basis of The Unholy Three (1925), which also featured Harry Earles, the midget in Freaks, along with Lon Chaney Sr., Mae Busch, and Victor...
219. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”—Estée Lauder 220. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”— Jim Rohn Which of these short motivational quotes will you turn to? Sometimes, all we need is asmall dose of inspirationto keep going. Remember to bookmark...
That's the one my muse started me on! Inspiration is supposed to be the point of the muse, right? But a muse can only get you started; it can't keep you going. Your muse won'tfinish a storyfor you. When your muse starts poking at you and you don't know if your idea is a ...
Short story writing helps you keep up your writing habit, or develop one, and they make for a nice break in between larger projects. I always write short stories between novels, and even between drafts of my novels. It keeps me going and puts use to all the random story ideas I had ...
The novella still needs work, and I haven’t submitted a lot of new short fiction. The early days of 2024 kept getting interrupted by edits and page proofs for stories I sold in 2023 (which is, admittedly, not a bad problem to have). I have finished one new short story, and two ne...
“First I saw that snake-green car, long and low and not quite Christian.” In “When Baptists Go Bad,” by H. Hodgkins, a story that proves there’s a solution for everything, at least in fiction. Happy Reading! Contemporary writers of Sherlock Holmes pastiches take inspiration from re...