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  2. The Best Short Stories for an Instant Escape - AOL

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    Games and Rituals, by Katherine Heiny All 11 of these stories are jewels of wit and insight, but if you read only one, make it “Damascus,” in which a mother confronts her son’s developing ...

  3. The Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    The story has appeared in numerous collection books. First, it appeared in the 1987 collection Inside Stories II. [2] Next, it appeared in Wilson's own 1990 collection, The Leaving [3] (also known by the name The Leaving and Other Stories for some reprints). [4] It was also included in the 2000 collection Close Ups: Best Stories for Teens. [5]

  4. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash - Wikipedia

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    Another short story, "The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds", was drawn from Shepherd's second book of them, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. [22] The five short stories that were used as the basis for A Christmas Story were collected under the title A Christmas Story and published as a stand-alone book in 2003. [23]

  5. It's a Good Life - Wikipedia

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    "It's a Good Life" is a short story by American writer Jerome Bixby, written in 1953. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, as one of the 20 best short stories in science fiction published prior to the Nebula Award. The story was first published in Star Science Fiction ...

  6. Marigolds (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion. [ 1 ] While teaching literature at the Community College of Baltimore County , she published "Marigolds" in Negro Digest , and it won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks ...

  7. Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - Wikipedia

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    As a short story cycle, the book presents forty mutually exclusive stories staged in a wide variety of possible afterlives.The author has stated that none of the stories is meant to be taken as serious theological proposals but, instead, that the message of the book is the importance of exploring new ideas beyond the ones that have been traditionally passed down.

  8. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Short story – A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. 1959–1989 The Time Machine series "Donald Keith" alias of Donald & Keith Monroe: Series of 23 short stories published in Boys' Life magazine centered around a patrol of Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. 1961 Danny Dunn, Time Traveler

  9. They're Made Out of Meat - Wikipedia

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    "They're Made Out of Meat" is a short story by American writer Terry Bisson. It was originally published in OMNI. [1] It consists entirely of dialogue between two characters. Bisson's website hosts a theatrical adaptation. [2] A film adaptation won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum's 2006 film festival. [3]