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The Woman on Platform 8 is a short story written by Indian author Ruskin Bond. It is narrated in first person by a schoolboy named Arun, and recounts an encounter with a mysterious woman in a train station. The story was first published in The Illustrated Weekly of India between 1955 and 1958.
"A Pair of Silk Stockings" is an 1897 short story written by Kate Chopin. The story follows Mrs. Sommers who prefers spending a windfall on herself, rather than on her children. The story follows Mrs. Sommers who prefers spending a windfall on herself, rather than on her children.
The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for two hours every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. She describes the sun to ...
Jackson [7] by Erich Hartmann. Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories . Born in San Francisco, California, Jackson ...
A Cross Line. "A Cross Line" is a short story written by George Egerton, also known as Mary Chavelita Dunne. [1] [2] The story appeared in a collection of short stories titled Keynotes, [3] published in 1893. It follows the interaction between a woman and a fisherman.
Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia ], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". [2]
Recitatif. " Recitatif " is Toni Morrison 's first published short story. It was initially published in 1983 in Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women, [1] an anthology edited by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka, and is the only short story written by the acclaimed novelist. The story was reissued as a stand-alone book, introduced by ...
This is a list of short stories written by Alice Munro. It includes stories that were published in single-author collections (books), the first story ever published, "The Dimensions of a Shadow" (1950), and other stories having appeared elsewhere.