Perhaps the most powerful scene in the Academy Award-winning film features no dialogue. However, thanks to Bruce Springsteen's song "Streets of Philadelphia," the scene winds up packing an emotional gut punch. Hanks explained during a 2022 interview: The power of cinema doesn’t happen...
How do you move through life without that inner voice constantly narrating your day like an episode of The Wonder Years? She longed to shut off her inner voice, if just for a short time. The constant dialogue which had been there for as long as she could remember could get... ...
Around six hours into my shift, after she’s clearly been trying to work up the nerve and trying to break me with silence (ha!) and it failed, she finally (completely out of the blue, while we’re both not on calls) turns to me and half-screams, half-cries: “THERE’S NO ‘I...
Here are some free short stories to read online. These very short stories are perfect for high school or middle school students or anyone who loves reading.
How To Curry Favor With Management ,Bosses/Owners/Managers,EmployeesGrocery StoreNon-Dialogue Back when I worked as a stocker in a supermarket, our store had a cooking station on weekends to show off and promote certain items. The guy manning the cooking station was an incredibly good cook. ...
“No Nani,” Angel clung to her hand “that’s a monster from space. It’s face was eaten up by the creeper.” Her eyes were wide with terror. “Deva.” Nani looked at him reprovingly. “It wasn’t me! “He raised his hand solemnly, but couldn’t quite hide the gleam in his...
“I just scratched at the door until they let me in,” she said of Playhouse founders Burton and Florence James. After completing her theater studies in thePacific NorthwestTerry tried for an acting career in New York, all the while journaling. “Pretty soon, I thought my own dialogue was...
This is the second in my Tugboat Man series. This time, Tug is in the race of his life against some very bad...well... not quite people. The title tells the tale. No, it has nothing to do with the Da Vinci code. But it's in the ballpark. The wife is from Atlantis, so ther...
Robert McKee,Dialogue I never thought about it with such clarity, but now that I read it, I can’t not see every thought and idea through this lens anymore. Is this something that’s said? Something that a person either said out loud, or revealed and shared through other means—which ...
P.S. Since your interest in humor is apparent, let me tell you a story from the second day of reading your book. I was with my parents before dinner and discussing the tips involved in your book. My father is a practicing lawyer who went to Ole Miss Law School and graduated in 1961...