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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

Author : Grace Paley

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 166 pages

File Size : 35,3 MB

Release : 2014-10-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1466883987

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In Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture "the itch of the city, love between parents and children" and "the cutting edge of combat" (Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review). In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a "solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life" (Walter Clemons, Newsweek).



Changes - Single Short Story

Author : Gene Wolf

Publisher : Gene Wolf

Page : 47 pages

File Size : 45,40 MB

Release : 2012-03-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1476046735

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Quick Change

Author : Debbie Young

Publisher : Hawkesbury Press

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 24,4 MB

Release : 2015-02-23

Category :

ISBN : 9780993087967

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Flash fiction, sudden fiction, micro-fiction, ultra short fiction - call them what you will, these twenty wry and witty short stories examine change at every stage of life, in a natural progression from birth to death. Mostly lighthearted, but often moving too, this collection is written with an admirable economy of style. Ranging from a spartan 100 words to the relative luxury of 1,000, they combine sharp observation of contemporary English life with gentle humor, profound affection for the social quirks of the author's native country, and the odd dark rumbling undertone. Plenty of surprises emerge along the way, from twists of magical realism to whimsical wish-fulfillment. BONUS MATERIAL: The paperback edition contains two new stories that were not in the original e-book edition, but were originally published in national flash fiction anthologies.



Collected Stories

Author : David Leavitt

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 546 pages

File Size : 22,80 MB

Release : 2003-11-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1582343489

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A definitive anthology of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of The Lost Language of Cranes offers a complete collection of his stories, including works from Family Dancing, The Marble Quilt, and A Place I've Never Been. Original. 12,000 first printing.



How to Write a Short Story

Author : N A Turner

Publisher :

Page : 102 pages

File Size : 36,21 MB

Release : 2019-07-28

Category :

ISBN : 9781077386693

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You always wanted to write short stories but you have no idea where to begin.Do you want to become better at writing fiction?Perhaps you find it hard to come up with ideas for a story or to devise a plot. Maybe you have difficulty developing your own style or is your dialogue rusty.N.A. Turner is here to help you navigate the land of short story writing from outlining your story to attracting readers. Every aspiring writer dreams of people reading his or her work. Short story writing is a way of both developing your writing style and to introduce your talent to potential readers. At the start of their career, the likes of Stephen King and Charles Bukowski made a name for themselves by writing and publishing short stories.Learn more about N.A. Turner's writing tips based on his experience and research.This guide teaches you: - How to write well-structured short stories- How to determine your theme- How to plot your story- How to create engaging, interesting characters- How to build a fictional world- How to write scenes and clear dialogue- How to get to that first draft and edit your story- How to publish your short stories in the current market- And much moreThis guidebook will show you a step-by-step process to successfully write and publish short stories. From developing an idea to attracting readers online. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide is all you need to get started.



Little Reef and Other Stories

Author : Michael Carroll

Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 14,62 MB

Release : 2014-06-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0299297438

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Little Reef and Other Stories announces the arrival of an original voice in literature. From Key West to Maine, Michael Carroll’s debut collection of stories depicts the lives of characters who are no longer provincial but are not yet cosmopolitan. These women and their gay male friends are “B-listers” of a new, ironic, media-soaked culture. They live in a rich but increasingly divided America, a weirdly paradoxical country increasingly accepting of gay marriage but still marked by prejudice, religious strictures, and swaths of poverty and hopelessness. Carroll shows us people stunned by the shock of the now, who have forgotten their pasts and can’t envision a future. Winner, Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters Finalist, Gay Fiction, Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Publishing Triangle



The Turning

Author : Tim Winton

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 26,63 MB

Release : 2006-10-10

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0743298772

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The author of Dirt Music and The Riders captures the urgency of memory and the way an entire life can be shaped by one event from the past in this capsule of connected stories set on the coast of Western Australia. Tim Winton's stunning collection of connected stories is about turnings of all kinds—changes of heart, slow awakenings, nasty surprises and accidents, sudden detours, resolves made or broken. Brothers cease speaking to each other, husbands abandon wives and children, grown men are haunted by childhood fears. People struggle against the weight of their own history and try to reconcile themselves to their place in the world. With extraordinary insight and tenderness, Winton explores the demons and frailties of ordinary people whose lives are not what they had hoped.



Single Scene Short Stories

Author : Margaret Bishop

Publisher : Gibbs Smith

Page : 268 pages

File Size : 37,31 MB

Release : 2007-03-15

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9781423600626

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A compilation of acclaimed short stories that each take place within a single scene



We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

Author : Samantha Irby

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 27,62 MB

Release : 2017-05-30

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1101912197

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears. Whether Samantha Irby is talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making “adult” budgets; explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette (she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"); detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes; sharing awkward sexual encounters; or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms (hang in there for the Costco loot!); she’s as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.



On Bittersweet Place

Author : Ronna Wineberg

Publisher :

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 29,52 MB

Release : 2014-09-16

Category : Immigrants

ISBN : 9780984764815

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On Bittersweet Place is the powerful coming-of-age story of Lena Czernitski, a young Russian Jew whose family flees their homeland in the Ukraine after the October Revolution. The story unfolds in Chicago during the Jazz Age of the 1920 s, where Lena s impoverished family has settled and where she must traverse the early years of adolescence. Lena s new world is large and beautiful and full of promise, but it is also cold and unwelcoming and laden with danger. Ronna Wineberg delivers a moving, universal story of family, self-discovery, young love, and the always relevant experience of the immigrant, the refugee, the outsider struggling to create a new home and a better life in an unfamiliar place.