About Blog EWR: Short Stories is a site
of short stories from authors old and new.
A DRM - free eBook copy of the soon - to - be released collection
of short stories from Dan Haight which includes some deleted scenes from Flotilla!
This Life writer and chick - lit novelist Amy Jenkins is pitching «a more reflective book about relationships», The Art of Losing, and a collection
of short stories from Fischer, entitled Crushed Mexican Spiders, is also among the site's first titles.
There's a bunch of neat new goodies out this week including a book
of short stories from Kaoru Mori and an omnibus edition of the end to Yen Press «s Chocolat.
An anthology is a collection
of short stories from various authors.
This book collects
some of his short stories from over the years by various artists.
About Blog EWR: Short Stories is a site
of short stories from authors old and new.
Noragami: Stray Stories is a collection
of short stories from the title's creator Adachitoka.
HarperPerennial is publishing collections
of short stories from greats like Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Herman Melville and Stephen Crane this month, and they were nice enough to send along a set for us.
You can read the complete text of «An Ex-Mas Feast», one
of the short stories from this collection, at BookBrowse.
The film, based on a series
of short stories from Maile Meloy, features a remarkable quartet of women including Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams and newcomer Lily Gladstone.
On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection
of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.
Not exact matches
To recap, Hogan sued Gawker for invasion
of privacy after the site published a
story in 2012 about the wrestler having sex with a friend's wife, and included a
short clip
from a recording
of the act.
And judging
from the consumers who have shared their
stories with Consumer Reports, that certainty is in
short supply as the fate
of the ACA is decided.
Well, to make a long
story short while referencing a great episode
from Seinfeld, we employed a special team
of people to «retrieve» the reports for us, and «yadda yadda yadda,» we appeared at pretrial with these ultra-damaging reports in hand.
I listen to the podcast to get inspiration
from the
stories of other entrepreneurs, but I read his blog for show notes when I'm
short on time.
To make a somewhat long
story short, when Mylan raised the price
of the EpiPen, they went
from a company quelling fear to a company instilling fear.
The course: This
short 40 - minute class breaks down the fundamentals
of narrative storytelling and what makes a
story different
from a mere anecdote.
Instead
of a case
of a craven fame - seeker seducing a great man, or a
short - sighted narcissist seeking a mirror for his own self - perceived glory, this
story, as Loeb tells it, seems to be a case
of two people who should have been good falling far
from even their own standards.
During a panel discussion as part
of the South by Southwest Festival's interactive program, Denton admitted that the Hogan
story — which was about a sex tape that the wrestler made with a friend's ex-wife, and included a
short clip
from the tape — didn't have an obvious point to it, apart
from embarrassing Hogan.
Long
story short, the IRS is more serious than ever about cracking down on cryptocurrency tax evaders, and it has three ways
of getting its fair share
from virtual token users.
While the
stories of bitcoin's dramatic rise in value,
from pennies to hundreds
of dollars each may seem appealing in the
short - run, the majority
of its value could disappear in a split second.
The
Short List is a compilation
of stories from across USA TODAY.
Here at Fundera, we've seen a number
of wild success
stories with debt refinancing — especially when it comes to graduating small business owners
from expensive
short - term financing to bigger and better loans.
A
short and colourless
story was provided by the Canadian Press, without a single word
of fulminating commentary
from the opposition, as when the same thing happened to NDP governments.
The Fly team scours all sources
of company news,
from mainstream to cutting - edge, then filters out the noise to deliver
short - form
stories consisting
of only market moving content.
In retelling the
story of Kierkegaard's
short career, Garff set himself two goals: «to reinstall Kierkegaard in his own time,» and to separate the facts about the man
from the myths created by his several self - depictions.
In Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination, he devises an elaborate framework to categorize passages
from the whole sweep
of Western literature: poems, novels,
short stories, plays, essays, memoirs, and letters - whether in Latin, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, English, German, or Russian.
When I mentioned Waugh's
story on Twitter recently, I was inundated with messages
from members
of the alt - right, who told me that Christianity is for «cucks» —
short for cuckold, a slur they hurl against whites who don't subscribe to their racial theories.
Wright begins with a painfully
short analysis
of the early church and the assembling
of the canon, noting that the emergence
of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an emphasis among early Christians on the historical nature
of the church as rooted in the Jewish
story, stressing «the continuity
from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed on the continuity
of the people
of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»
From books like * The Sociopath Next Door * by Martha Stout, I recalled that one
of the key ways a manipulator hooks people is by sharing
stories that make themselves look like they've been misunderstood, bullied, attacked, suffering... in
short, The Victim.
His collection
of short stories, Nebraska, won an award
from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters.
The
short stories fare better,
from the
stories of The Company She Keeps to «The Cicerone,» a Jamesian tale
of Americans in Europe that features a biting portrait
of Peggy Guggenheim.
Jean Paul Sartre's character Pablo Ibbieta, in the
short story «The Wall,» would have no dramatic impact, and the
story would never have been written, because persons in Ibbieta's position would invariably have learned
from God that the Ramon Grises
of this world had moved back to whatever was the analogue for them
of the gravedigger s shack.
In only a few
short paragraphs, Alison provides a compelling account
of analogy as God's way
of subverting the human
story of violence
from within» analogy depends on God's refusal to be rejected by his creation.
Back in 2012, a
short film called Montauk
from filmmaker Charlie Kessler garnered some attention at The Hamptons Film Festival for its intriguing sci - fi
story about a government research lab conducting strange experiments outside
of a small American town (which leads to a bunch
of weird stuff happening, including a child going missing and a monster
from another dimension being released).
To make a long
story short, a separate choir was being started behind my back -LRB-... the minister
of music), evidently with blessings
from the pastor (his wife was friends with the woman starting the group).
This hybrid form that draws
from and combines elements
of both the essay and the
short story is generally considered one
of the identifying characteristics
of Borges's fiction.
Country Lovers and City Lovers, two
of six
short films adapted
from Nadine Gordimer
short stories and locally produced, are well - wrought cries
of controlled outrage against sexual apartheid.
These biblical
stories, while not being accounts
of actual incidents, nevertheless have a connection with actuality which
stories of the ordinary kind do not need to have, Thus the creation
story is true only if God is in fact the Creator
of the heavens and the earth and
of man in his image, and the
story of the fall is true only if man is in fact alienated
from God and thus actually falling
short of the glory
of his own true nature and destiny.
In
short, it is the aesthetic dimension, the beauty portrayed in the mind and
story of Jesus that calls forth a distinctively religious rather than merely ethical response
from the Christian believer.
Fox tells the
story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades
of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny
of Man; the founding
of the Fellowship
of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move
from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and
from leader
of the Fellowship
of Reconciliation to critic
of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration
of Christianity and Crisis; the founding
of the Union for Democratic Action, then later
of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement
from Union in 1960, followed by
short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study
of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute
of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering
from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
A narrative form
of analogy frequently found in religious teachings is the parable, a
short fictional
story whose characters are taken
from everyday life.
a few
of my grandchildren deciced they wanted to spend the weekend and while doing so decided to look for something they themselve could make for themand grandma for lunch while i was out doing things in the garden, so to make a long
story short when asked if they could make lunch i said sure but no cooking on the stove.thinking that would save them geyying hurt in any way.i half exoecte beanut butter and jelly or ham and chesse sandwiches and chips or something but what got was This wonderful Taco Pizza., I always keep taco meat made up i the freezer along with all the other things in which to make easy fast dishes for them needless to say i was delighted and surprized., when i askes how they did it I was told thats for us to know and you to enjoy.well I did and i think that if a 14,10 and very very smart 3 yr old can make this its simply wonderful.thank you and it took some work but i bribed the 10 yr old into telling my where he found it thank goodness the computer has history, lol, and bookmarking.its something every mother or grandmother should try to make with their little taco lovers.thank you
From a grandmother
we are a football club first and a business second... or should be... this is how all dictatorships end... the colonel
of the EPL lost his marbles 5 seasons ago on my estimate... he has become a character
from a gabriel garcia marquez
short story... or is that just some teenage midfield prodigy he is trying to bring in
from the Mexican third division...
But Hockey sur Glace, a collection
of seven
short stories and four poems, is a sensitive portrayal
of outdoor hockey players, whose rugged aura is derived in part
from playing in bitter temperatures on rough and unpredictable ice.
But long
story short, after 20 minutes
of sticking and missing, me and my 8 month pregnant wife holding him down, they had to call in the flight nurse
from the helicopter ambulance staff.
Alas, the euphoria was
short - lived, as Woods, needing another bird on 18 to reach Casey, came up
short with his approach shot and a birdie putt
from 39 feet, which was pretty much the
story of his day.
Folsom went
from an afterthought on the basketball scene to a near Cinderella - like
story after the Bulldogs came up just
short of a CIF Division II title, losing to St. John Bosco - Bellflower 63 - 54 on March 29 at Sleep Train Arena.
Long
story short, Spacey learns some important lessons on fatherhood
from the family cat, which got us wondering what kind
of feline best embodies all the different parenting styles.