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SANTA RIDES A MOTORCYCLE! FACT OR FICTION?
I saw it, really! I was walking to the Arco station to get an energy drink. I heard a roaring sound. When I turned around to look I saw Santa driving a motorcycle? He waved at me and pulled into the Arco. He had white as snow long hair and a full beard....
Tags: Santa Claus, Christmas, Children, Snow, Winter, Love, Holidays, feelings, sad, warm, depressed, depression, help, christmas spirit, hope, short story
SHS short story contest winner: 'Lessons Learned'
Rome :: Italy | 1 day ago
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Winners won cash prizes, a certificate and had the opportunity to read their stories aloud at the Rotary Club's weekly meeting Nov. 24...Traffic was creeping slowly along the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 and his board meeting would be starting in...
Tags: Frank Monroe, story contest, short story, Mr. Monroe, Italy, Rome, Monroe Louisiana, Louisiana African American Heritage Trail, Ouachita Parish Louisiana, Monroe Louisiana metropolitan area
The Collected Stories by William Trevor | Book review
Exeter :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility The Collected Stories by William Trevor Joseph O'Connor salutes the achievement of a master storyteller Joseph O'onnor William Trevor at home in Exeter. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe This handsome, slip-cased, double-volume set of short stories contains...
Tags: William Trevor Joseph O'Connor, collection stories, United Kingdom, Exeter, Fiction, Short story, John McGahern, William Trevor, Flannery O'Connor
Tom Sutcliffe: The joy of a short story
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility In The Devil’s Dictionary Ambrose Bierce defined the novel as “a short story padded”...Bierce himself was a short story writer and the entry perhaps betrays a certain testiness at the respective statures of the two forms. Certainly what follows that...
Tags: short story, Ambrose Bierce, United Kingdom, London, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, Fiction, Novel, Aphorists, Hippolyte Delaroche
O’Connor collection wins National Book Award vote
Milledgeville :: GA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility In a special National Book Foundation online vote, author Flannery O’Connor edged out William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon and other leading writers...More than 10,000 people cast ballots in the first public vote in the history of the National...
Tags: national books, books award, Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, Thomas Pynchon, National Book Foundation, books foundation, Life of Flannery O, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, public votes, Milledgeville, Connor, Short story, The Geranium, Flannery O'Connor bibliography, Flannery O'Connor, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest
Mavis Gallant interview
New York City :: NY :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility Mavis Gallant 'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write' Mavis Gallant at Le Dôme restaurant in Paris. Photograph: Paul Cooper A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box...
Tags: New Yorker, New York Review, New York Times, selected story, Paris, short story, Green Sky, Montreal, story writer, New York City
'New Moon' Star Robert Pattinson To Be Joined By Uma Thurman In 'Bel Ami'
Paris :: France | 8 days ago
Credibility As soon as Robert Pattinson loses one high-profile leading lady, he gains another one for his upcoming film " Bel Ami ." Of course, Nicole Kidman was never officially booked for the movie — an offer went out, but a deal was never solidified — but now...
Tags: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Bel Ami, short story, Parisian, hollywood reporter, George Duroy, Guy de Maupassant, star robert, France, Paris, Pattinson, Twilight, UMA, Kristen Stewart, Twilight series, Entertainment Culture, Thurman New York, Twi, New Moon, Pattison, Human Interest, Striptease, Nudity, Nicole Kidman, Teen films
AL Kennedy: Just because a story's about sex doesn't mean it's about sex
Berlin :: Germany | 8 days ago
Credibility Just because a story's about sex doesn't mean it's about sex The subject reliably grabs attention, but the words in a good story are usually getting up to all sorts of other stuff 'And don't forget to put the blade guard on' ... A couple talks about...
Tags: short story, Germany, Berlin, Jim Zwerg, Adolescent sexuality in the United States
British Council launches its 75th anniversary of short story writing competition for the Middle East
Sanaa :: Yemen | 14 days ago
Credibility Six successful young Yemeni writers have won British Council’s Short Story competition award for writing an original story part of the British Council’s global activities during 2009 to celebrate its 75 years of work in cultural relations. The competition...
Tags: Middle East Short, British Council, short story, story competition, Yemen, Sanaa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, English-language education, British culture, Education
Keralotsavam concludes
Muscat :: Oman | 15 days ago
Credibility Madhavan IAS, received this year’s Pravasi Kairali Sahithya Award presented by the Malayalam Wing of Indian Social Club Muscat for his contribution to contemporary Malayalam literature. The award was given on the sidelines of the two-day annual celebration...
Tags: N. S. Madhavan IAS, Malayalam Wing, short story, Malayalam Gulf Conference, Keralotsavam, Malayalam Language, Oman, Muscat, Malayali people, N. S. Madhavan, Malayalam literature
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