Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
"Through the Tunnel" is a short story written by British author Doris Lessing, originally published in the American weekly magazine The New Yorker in 1955. [ 1 ] Plot
The story, roughly 5,600 words, first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post on April 1, 1961. [1] The story was later republished in a Robert F. Young short story collection in 1965 called The Worlds of Robert F Young: Sixteen Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy. The line "Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today ...
Jesus' Son is a collection of short fiction by Denis Johnson published in 1992 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.A short story cycle comprising 11 pieces, Jesus' Son is Johnson's most critically acclaimed and popular literary effort, and the work with which Johnson is most identified.
The story itself is considered a performance so there is a synergy among the aforementioned elements. [1] In the story, the narrator may draw attention to the narrative or to himself as storyteller. [2] The structure often includes the following: Tell riddles to test the audience. Audience becomes a chorus and comments on the story.
Filled with joy, she rushes off stage, to greet her old family. Half an hour later she's on the street with them, happy to return to her good old life of hunger, full of abuse and drunken Luka's eloquence, mostly in the form of one, oft-repeated observation: "You, Kashtanka, are an insect of a creature, and nothing else.
The story refers several times to Maria's life of spinsterhood, devoted to others, with no hope of change. The title suggests that one of the children surreptitiously placed a lump of clay in one of the saucers from which the children have to choose their fate, representing death, meaning that the person will die soon.
The story is parodied in the Time and Punishment section of The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror V." [7] The story is referenced in a brief scene at the beginning of the Doctor Who episode "Space Babies." [8] The story is mentioned by the protagonists in the novel 11/22/63 by Stephen King on page 648.
"Here There Be Tygers" is a short horror story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the Spring 1968 issue of Ubris magazine, and collected in King's Skeleton Crew in 1985. This story follows a third-grader who discovers a tiger lurking in his school bathroom.