Clio has taught education courses at the college level and has a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction. Sometimes, the most compelling story is one that ends in an unexpected way. This lesson provides a series of short stories with twist endings that kids can enjoy while developing their infere...
“It’s possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman’s earring—with immense, even startling power.”—Raymond Carver “A short st...
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17 Story Writing Prompts for Young Writers 17 Unexpected Plot Twist Ideas + Tips and More! 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 ...
Below, I’ve handpicked a plethora of great short story ideas across variedbook genresto kickstart your writing journey and tacklewriters block. Ready to jump into some spell-binding short story prompts? General Story Ideas An encounter with a stranger at a bus stop changes a woman’s life ...
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And definitely a distinctive point of view. Ideally - and this is very important with short stories - something should happen. This doesn’t have to be a huge, dramatic climax or a crazy twist, but it does have to be interesting. Short stories don’t take long to read but they do ...
My story “Mile Roads” is included in this gothic anthology with a winter twist. “Mile Roads” is another story in my Uncanny Pembina Valley sequence that began with “Cheating the Devil at Solitaire” (In fact, “Mile Roads” serves as a prequel of sorts to “Cheating the Devil at So...
Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand-born English master of the short story, who evolved a distinctive prose style with many overtones of poetry. Her delicate stories, focused upon psychological conflicts, have an obliqueness of narration and a subtlety
“Story of My Dovecote”), named after the opening story of autobiographical fiction about a middle-class Jewish boy growing up inNikolayevand Odessa under the old regime. Babel’s innovative prose is distinguished by aphoristic precision, combined with the metaphoric extravagance of Modernist ...