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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]
The Lesson (short story) " The Lesson " is a short story by Toni Cade Bambara (1938–1995). It was first published in 1972. [1] The Lesson” is a first-person narrative told by a young, black girl named Sylvia who is growing up in Brooklyn. The story is about a trip initiated by a well-educated woman named Miss Moore who has taken it upon ...
Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media.The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.
A Moral Universe Torn Apart. Creators Publishing. ISBN 978-1945630941. — (2015). What's Fair and Other Short Stories. Revolutionary Publishing. — Amazon e-book only (no longer available) — (2017). True Allegiance. Post Hill Press. ISBN 978-1-68261077-0. — (May 2017). Say It's So: Papa, Dad, Me and 2005 White Sox Championship Season ...
1975. A Braver Thing. Charles Sheffield. Asimov's Science Fiction. 1990. A Cabin on the Coast. Gene Wolfe. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. 1984.
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993) – biographical black comedy television film based on the true story of Wanda Holloway, a woman who tried to put out a hit on one of her daughter's classmates (and the girl's mother) to advance her own daughter's Middle school cheerleading career
82 = The Moons of Jupiter – 1982. 86 = The Progress of Love – 1986. 90 = Friend of My Youth – 1990. 94 = Open Secrets – 1994. 98 = The Love of a Good Woman. 01 = Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – 2001. 04 = Runaway – 2004. 06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009.
Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...