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The Woman on Platform 8 is a short story written by Indian author Ruskin Bond. [1] [2] It is narrated in first person by a schoolboy named Arun, and recounts an encounter with a mysterious woman in a train station. [3] The story was first published in The Illustrated Weekly of India between 1955 and 1958. [4]
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" is a short story by William Saroyan, published within the collection My Name is Aram. It tells the story of two boys, Aram and Mourad, who belong to a very poor fictional tribe called the Garoghlanian tribe.
A film adaptation of the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", entitled Black Hearts Bleed Red, was made in 1992 by New York filmmaker Jeri Cain Rossi. The film stars noted New York artist Joe Coleman , [ 27 ] but according to reviewers the film does not depict the story well.
8. Myron Myron becomes class president, whose only job is to turn the lights on before everyone arrives and turn the lights off in the afternoon after everyone leaves. Myron, unsatisfied, wonders if there is more to being class president. Subsequently, he saves the life of Dana's dog Pugsy, but is demoted due to arriving late to class the next day.
Black Walls and Other Stories (ed. by Don J. Cohn, ISBN 962-7255-06-8) Chinese short stories of the twentieth century: an anthology in English (ed. by Zhihua Fang, ISBN 0-8153-0532-X) Includes "The Class Teacher". Prize-winning Stories from China, 1978-1979 (by Liu Xinwu, Wang Meng, and others).
"The Necklace", or sometimes "The Diamond Necklace", (French: La Parure) is a short story by Guy de Maupassant, first published on 17 February 1884 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois. [1] It is known for its twist ending , a hallmark of de Maupassant's style.
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition, is a posthumous collection of Ernest Hemingway's (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) short fiction, published in 1987. It contains the classic First Forty-Nine Stories as well as 21 other stories and a foreword by his sons.