If you're new toshort storywriting, it can be intimidating to think of fitting everything you need in a story into a small word count. Are there certain elements of a short story you'll need to know in order for your story to be great? Writers struggle with this all the time. You ...
So now, “Beading lesson”. The fractured relationship mentioned by GoodReads is with the aunt’s sister, that is, the niece’s mother. The story is told first person by the aunt, who gently and patiently shows her niece the intricacies of beading, as they make some earrings for the moth...
If so, then you know a certain sequence, or order, was needed. First, you do the chore, and then you get the ice cream. Many things in life have a cause and effect. Let's look at a similar story describing another problem.
___ have a talk and the man starts to tell his story.“Twenty years ago tonight,” said the man, “I had dinner here at ‘Big Joe’ Brady’s with Jim, my best friend, and finest young man in the world. He and I were raised here in New York, just like two ___, together. ...
Volume 2 is a collection of short stories that picks up when the first ended, covering names starting with K through Z (Kenneth through Zoe). Cronin includes a bonus short story for a collection coming out later in 2018. This is a quick read that I breezed through in a few hours, ...
After describing the expectancy of a lover, waiting in a room one winter's evening, his anxiety, his nervous impatience, the terrible fear of not seeing her, he describes the arrival of the beloved woman, who at last enters hurriedly, out of breath, bringing with her part of the winter ...
A well-researched and gory tale that will keep you on your toes and leave you wondering what will happen next. The story is very vivid and extremely chilling. The author did an excellent job describing the feelings of the main character. I enjoyed the plot and the pacing, and really liked...
To be well balanced does not guarantee better-grade work. There is, in a good deal of Twain’s writing—in the Hadleyburg story, for example—a kind of naïveté which one feels is literary, a sort of refusal to infuse prose with the sophistication of the mature man. This no doubt ...
“The Wish” by Robert Sheckley (published in Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1957) – This story revolves around an alien who wishes for a single human to become his bride but with unforeseen comedic consequences. “The Long Wait” by Cory Doctorow (published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, ...
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