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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.
Based on the popular fairy tale of the same name, this parody includes as its main themes mocking the idea of anti-"speciesism" and the more radical branches and concepts of feminism (such as using the spelling "womyn" instead of "women" throughout, a pattern that is repeated in other stories in the book), and is one of the several stories in which the ending is completely altered from the ...
“The best mirror is an old friend.” — George Herbert “Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.” — Jesse Owens “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky ...
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is a short fiction collection by Stephen King, published on November 3, 2015. [1] This is King's sixth collection of short stories and his tenth collection overall. One of the stories, "Obits", won the 2016 Edgar Award for best short story, [ 2 ] and the collection itself won the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for best ...
― Richelle E. Goodrich, “Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year” “Life is a celebration. Consider everything that makes you happy as a gift from God and say ...
The stories also appear in The Farmers' Daughters: The Collected Short Stories of William Carlos Williams (1961). [2] These short literary works mark a shift in Williams’ development as a writer and the expression of his social concerns, influenced by the impact of the Great Depression on American workers and their families. [3] [4] [5]
American Short Fiction (Vol. 23, No.71) Christa Romanosky "In This Sort of World, the Asshole Wins" The Cincinnati Review (Vol. 17, No.2) George Saunders "Love Letter" The New Yorker (April 6, 2020) Shanteka Sigers "A Way with Bea" The Paris Review (No. 234) Stephanie Soileau "Haguillory" Zoetrope: All-Story (Vol.24, No. 2) Madhuri Vijay "You ...
In the short Foreword, the editors state that "[s]ome notable stories are missing" for purposes of balance, and also that "parody, nonsense, and casual essays" have been excluded as "outside the scope of this book." There is a conventional table of contents and an index lists each story alphabetically by its author's last name.