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| | Short story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Short stories are most often a form of fiction writing, with the most widely published form of short stories being genre fiction such as science fiction, horror fiction, detective fiction, and so on. | | | Literary magazines also provide a showcase for short stories. | | | Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story
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| | Writer's Encyclopedia--Letter S |
| | Tales of mythological gods and their involvement with humans are echoed by modern-day science fiction stories of encounters with alien beings. | | | This is because in some cases the line between science fiction and fantasy is virtually nonexistent. | | | There are other definitions of science fiction, and much disagreement in academic circles as to just what constitutes science fiction and what constitutes fantasy. |
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http://www.writersmarket.com/encyc/s.asp
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| | The American Short Story: A Selective Chronology |
| | Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction. | | | The Dramaturgy of Style: Voice in Short Fiction, 1986. | | | l842 -- 2nd edition of Twice-Told Tales published by Monroe, reviewed by Poe in Graham's Magazine (where Poe defined the short story). |
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http://titan.iwu.edu/~jplath/sschron.html
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| | SHORT STORY |
| | The sound track of Parts I and II combines the voice of the narrator with music and sound effects which complement the situations of the various excerpts. | | | Why is compression so vital to the structure of the short story? | | | SHORT STORY: a relatively brief prose tale characterized by compression and unity of effect. |
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http://www.guidanceassociates.com/shortstory.html
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| | short story |
| | In order to be able to do this, you need to develop a systematic understanding of the story. | | | Under the headings of "The Elements of Fiction," your text mentions numerous things that you can look at -- and analyze -- in a piece of fiction. | | | What do both titles suggest about the theme? |
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http://www.fdg.aranea.de/faecher/ZK_Arb_Englisch/seite7.htm
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| | Short-short Stories by Bruce Holland Rogers |
| | For example, a flash fiction is a story of fewer than 750 words. | | | Definitions are sometimes made by arbitrarily choosing a story length. | | | Stories go out three times a month, and they are an unpredictable mix of literary fiction, science fiction, fairy tales, mysteries, and work that is hard to classify. |
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http://www.shortshortshort.com
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| | NPR : Librarian's Picks: Short Story Favorites |
| | Morning Edition, September 29, 2005 · Steve Inskeep talks with librarian Nancy Pearl, who's back with another hefty stack of book recommendations. | | | From Art, who listens to WITF in central Pennsylvania | | | This is a collection of interlinked short stories, charting the amusing and slightly askew life of main character Charlotte Anne Byers. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4868008
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| | Carve Magazine Contest Page |
| | If you have doubts about transmission, try a trial run--send the document to a friend and cc yourself. | | | · Entry fee: $15 (US) for one story. | | | Entry fee $15 for one, $25 for two, and $30 for three stories submitted together. |
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http://www.carvezine.com/contest.htm
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| | short story on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Strategies of silence: colonial strains in short stories of the troubles. | | | The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. | | | Short stories date back to earliest times; they can be found in the Bible, Gesta Romanorum of the Middle Ages, Boccaccio's Decameron, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s1/shortsto.asp
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| | Short Story Writing Tips - tips for writing short stories |
| | The best stories are the ones that follow a narrow subject line. | | | Why do some stories truly ring in the mind while others leave you with the feeling of 'what was the point?'. | | | There is no room for unnecessary expansion in a short story. |
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http://www.shortstorygroup.com/storytips.htm
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| | short stories at east of the web |
| | Summaries of every story are available and the site includes biographies of the authors (such as mark twain, oscar wilde, jack london and nathaniel hawthorne) and analysis. | | | We publish both classic stories and new writing in nine categories - fiction, humour, children's, science fiction and fantasy, crime, non-fiction, romance, horror and hyperfiction. | | | So if you are looking for a favorite short story from the classics, or want to keep up with the latest stories being published - click to enter short stories at east of the web. |
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http://www.short-stories.co.uk
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| | Radio National Short Story Home Page |
| | From 30 January 2005 you can hear two Short Stories each Sunday. | | | Outhine Bounyavong is a well-known author of contemporary Lao fiction. | | | Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie, India. |
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http://abc.net.au/rn/arts/sstory
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| | Site Map of The Crime Library |
| | Marvin Anderson's Nightmare: Stories of the Innocence Project | | | True stories about one of the most notorious cities in the U.S. You don't want to end up there. | | | Tragic story of a man jailed for 15 years for crimes he didn't commit. |
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http://www.crimelibrary.com/fiction
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| | 83.03.09: Elements of the Short Story |
| | Using the list they generated on their own, ask students to write a paragraph about this character including both concrete and abstract words from their list. | | | Many movies and television shows have theme songs (Happy Days) and the popularity of these shows has made many theme songs popular. | | | Have students tell why each particular song is a good one for the show. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/3/83.03.09.x.html
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| | Story Bytes - World's Shortest Stories - Fiction with Lengths a Power of 2. |
| | Story Bytes - World's Shortest Stories - Fiction with Lengths a Power of 2. | | | Story Bytes' very short stories offer a glimpse through this window into brief vignettes of life, often reflecting or revealing those things which make us human. | | | Story Bytes - A monthly Ezine and weekly electronic mailing list presenting the Internet's (and the world's) shortest stories - fiction ranging from 2 to 2048 words. |
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http://www.storybytes.com
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| | Way Ahead: SHORT STORY ACUMEN |
| | Now we have released Short Story Acumen, a fully-featured tutorial specifically for those who want to earn good money and win competitions with short stories. | | | Short Story Acumen is far more than a course on disk. | | | The Library contains a selection of published stories in various styles and genres, accompanied by commentaries from the authors. |
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http://www.hsc-ltd.demon.co.uk/wayahead/ssa.html
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| | What Is A Short Story? |
| | This is especially important in the science fiction or fantasy novel, but it is also relevant to historicals, Gothics, westerns... | | | This is also the story where the girl does not tell the police what she knows because she jumps to the conclusion that her lover is the murderer. | | | Nobody, these days, wants a story which concludes "Now, the moral of this story is..."; but in general, what was your story ABOUT? |
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http://mzbworks.home.att.net/what.htm
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| | The Short Story Page |
| | Currently featured are Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Anime Fan Fiction, and a collection of links. | | | The stories and poems on this page are of wildly diverse genres. | | | All stories are presented here with the permission of their author, and are property/copyright of the author. |
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http://www.jhedge.com/story
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| | 5.01: Features |
| | Though Brian Aldiss bristles at being pigeonholed as a sci-fi writer, the British author has won every major science fiction award. | | | Aldiss's story offers richly suggestive details that one hopes will make the cinematic cut. | | | But just in case they don't, read the original. |
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.01/ffsupertoys_pr.html
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| | ABC Short Stories » Home |
| | Flooding a curse for the Old Tallangatta [07/03/2006] | | | Welcome to the home of ABC Radio Regional Production Fund's Short Story Project! | | | Entries have closed for the 2005 Short Stories Project. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/shortstories
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| | The Short Story |
| | Poe on plot: "A short story in which nothing at all happens is an absolute impossibility." | | | short story peaks as a form in the mid 20 | | | (1824-1826) an early collection of folk stories that paved the way for the development of the genre of short stories |
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http://www.sfu.ca/english/Gillies/engl207/shortsto.htm
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| | Short Story resources at Author Network |
| | Other Voices - The following short stories are mostly contributed by readers who have decided to try their hand at writing their own story in this genre. | | | They will also learn the how to's of submitting their work from query letter to agents. | | | A specialized library of books, audio and video tapes for all aspects of writing: Script writing, screenwriting, screenplay, fiction, prose, mystery, science fiction, non-fiction, film production, TV and teleplay. |
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http://www.author-network.com/sstories.html
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| | Short Story |
| | Each student will write his own original short story. | | | As we analyze each aspect of the stories, we will also be doing creative application assignments on many of the stories. | | | We will read a wide variety of stories from two different books that will be issued to the students, as well as copies of stories that will be given as xeroxes. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/mrs_wanlin/Education7.html
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| | Short Story Criticism |
| | Arranged alphabetically by title, each includes a list of main characters, a synopsis of the story, themes and meanings of the story and comments on the style and techniques of the author. | | | The Short Story Classics: The Best from the Masters of the Genre | | | This is usually found in line 1 or 2. |
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http://library.scsu.ctstateu.edu/shstorycritbib.html
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| | short story - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about short story |
| | The form has a long history and examples of its popularity and success include Aesop's Fables and the tales of The Thousand and One Nights. | | | Short work of prose fiction, usually consisting of between 500 and 10,000 words, which typically either sets up and resolves a single narrative point or depicts a mood or an atmosphere. | | | Within these constraints, the focus may be primarily the events (as with Poe's stories), the presentation of character (as in the stories of Anton Chekhov), or the relationship between character and setting (for example, James Joyce's Dubliners). |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Short+Story
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| | Short Story |
| | Short Story does not discourage fictions which are brief, innovative, or otherwise different from the mainstream traditional forms. | | | Short Story's Associate Editor in New Orleans will be JoAnna Leake, who currently teaches at UNO. | | | Complete your Short Story collection with the following back issues. |
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http://www.uni.edu/english/shrtstry/shrtsty.html
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| | Amazon's short story News.blog CNET News.com |
| | For one, Amazon is offering the stories with no digital rights management protection, leaving the way open for piracy. | | | But several writers doubted whether the retailer would be able to attract readers to stories by less than well-known authors, or if this would simply be a place for people who were already interested in a particular author or genre to buy those works. | | | Others said that the pricing structure may not work out in an author's favor, since instead of getting paid upfront, Amazon is going to pay a royalty fee for each copy sold. |
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http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5843485.html
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| | Zoetrope: All-Story |
| | With design and original photography by acclaimed musician Tom Waits, this beautiful edition includes contributions from Mary Gaitskill, Miranda July, Charles D’Ambrosio, David Means, and Paul Auster, among others; and marks the magazine’s first edition to be printed on glossy paper. | | | Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler has announced results of the 2005 Short Fiction Contest. | | | Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly literary publication founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997 to explore the intersection of story and art, fiction and film. |
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http://www.all-story.com
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| | Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Web Site |
| | Lorian Hemingway signs copies of her new book, "A World Turned Over," during the festival. | | | This competition is dedicated to the craft of writing and awards $2,000 in cash prizes every year to top writers of short fiction. | | | Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, All Rights Reserved 2000 ©. |
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http://www.shortstorycompetition.com
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| | Short Story Index |
| | Subject access includes theme, locale, narrative technique or device (such as surprise endings, dialect stories, parodies, story-within-a-story) and genre. | | | For the reader seeking short fiction by a favorite author, the teacher looking for the quintessential example of a particular genre, or the student researching the body of work of a literary figure, Short Story Index is a practical resource. | | | Just click a special WilsonLink icon for automatic links to your other databases—no matter what the vendor. |
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http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/storeindec.htm
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| | Unit Overview, Short Story |
| | The short story is a very manageable segment of writing; therefore the quick progression that is possible with short story should keep the students interested. | | | Elements; includes group work, re-working a paragraph of the story | | | Lesson 1 - Elements of the Short Story |
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http://www.lessonplanspage.com/more/LAShortStory_UnitOverview1112.htm
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| | Classic Short Stories |
| | Maybe some day I will want to spend an entire day or two on one story, but not at this juncture. | | | I read short stories often, but only for the enjoyment of doing so. | | | I have a fairly large collection of short stories; however, if you want to send a story to me, I would appreciate it (this would save me scanning time). |
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http://www.bnl.com/shorts
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| | Exhibits Collection -- Literature |
| | You will also encounter rest stops where you can read more about the structure of story and take part in activities related to "A Jury of Her Peers". | | | If you have read the story, click here to read about the elements of a good short story and to take part in activities related to "A Jury of Her Peers". | | | Enter the door on the right to begin your journey. |
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http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature
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| | Trollope Society Short Story Prize |
| | The winner receives a cheque for £1,000 ($1,750 USD) and his or her story is published in the Society’s journal, Trollopiana. | | | To encourage interest in his novels among young people, the Trollope Society has established an annual short story competition. | | | Anthony Trollope was, he confessed, thoroughly miserable and ‘always in disgrace’ at school, yet he became a much loved author. |
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http://www.trollopestoryprize.org
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| | Short Story Contest! |
| | Congratulations and a big thank you to all who participated. | | | We are proud to announce the winners of the 2005 Tales of Future Past Short Story Contest. | | | The 2005 Tales of Future Past Short Story Contest Winners |
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http://davidszondy.com/contest.htm
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| | RodMer Short Story Room |
| | You have just entered the RodMer Short Story Room containing eighteen of our short stories (twelve by Merike, six by Rod) organized into eighteen packages. | | | You can select and read any individual short story (as many as you want) immediately on-line or you can download a short story package in 'rich text format' for printing out on your printer. | | | Or you can just look quickly at the one or two opening paragraphs. |
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http://www.eagle.ca/~roda/RodMerArts/StoryRoom.html
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| | Matthews, Brander. 1907. The Short-Story |
| | Edited with Introduction and Notes by Brander Matthews, LL.D. With a selection of 23 short stories from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century, Brander Matthews—a pioneer of dramatic scholarship and professor at Columbia University—demonstrates, “the slow evolution of this literary species through the long centuries of advancing civilization.&; | | | Note to The Fall of the House of Usher |
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http://www.bartleby.com/195
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| | Socialist Review |
| | I knew what the Selfridges-watchers were thinking: they were remembering (or remembering being told - some of them looked too young to recall life before the Christmas™ Act) an old tradition. | | | Over on a side street, a few passers-by were staring at the extraordinary spectacle. | | | Call me childish, but I love all the nonsense - the snow, the trees, the tinsel, the turkey. |
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http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9150
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