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Orozco's best-known short story is "Orientation", [5] which originally appeared in The Seattle Review and has subsequently been included in The Best American Short Stories 1995, and presented in audio form on National Public Radio. [6] Orientation: And Other Stories, a collection of Orozco's work, was published by Faber & Faber in May 2011. [7]
The story relates the experience of Barb, a woman whose gender has been reassigned to "attack helicopter" so as to make her a better pilot. It was a finalist for the 2021 Hugo Award, under the title "Helicopter Story". The story's original title is taken from an Internet meme used to disparage transgender people.
Chekhov began writing stories to earn money, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations that influenced the evolution of the modern short story. [14] [h] [16] He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them. [17]
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published nineteen novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, [3] for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
He then tells the reflection that he'll never lie again, and the reflection disappears. Eventually, the family comes home to check if the boy is okay. He tells them his story about the reflection but they don't believe him. They find the compass under his father's desk; the rats actually stole it.
For Victor Pelevin's short prose the main cycle-forming principle is the subjective mystical-philosophical orientation common to all the stories. The title of Pelevin's first collection was given by the story of the same name "Blue Lantern", where the image of the blue lantern acts as a mystical symbol of the netherworld, or rather the illusory border between the two worlds.
Perhaps no company understands fintech’s rollercoaster ride over the past few years better than Plaid. Founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey, Plaid operates as a kind of plumbing ...
Sujatha was a versatile Tamil author, with several short stories, novels, poems, plays, screenplays for movies, articles on popular science and other non-fiction articles, to his credit. Sujatha wrote a number of sci-fi stories in Tamil and sought to explain science in simple terms to the layman.