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The story centers on a young couple, John and Edith Andros. They are the parents of Ede, their two-and-half-year-old daughter. Although the prospect of having a child to continue his name and livelihood appeals to the father, the day-to-day realities soon irritate him.
"The Baby in the Icebox" is a 1932 short story by James M. Cain and the first of his many works set in California during the Great Depression. [1]Written as a first-person narrative in the style of Ring Lardner, "The Baby in the Icebox" anticipated his first novel published two years later, The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Though Kate Chopin is usually considered to be a writer of American realism and naturalism, the story is difficult to classify, in part because it is extremely short.The story leaves the moral conclusion up to the reader, suggesting it is naturalistic, but the fairytale-like elements of the love story are inconsistent with either naturalism or realism.
"The Small Assassin" is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was first published in the November, 1946 issue of Dime Mystery.It was collected in Bradbury's anthology Dark Carnival and later collected in the anthologies The October Country, The Autumn People, The Small Assassin, The Stories of Ray Bradbury, and The Vintage Bradbury.
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner is a 2000 collection of short fiction works by F.X. Toole. [1] The book is composed of five short stories and a novella. [2] F.X. Toole is the pen name of Jerry Boyd, who had much of his fiction writing rejected for publication, before one of the then unpublished short stories in Rope Burns came to the attention of Howard Junker. [3]
Lois Gould was a journalist and author who had written one novel, Such Good Friends, in 1970. [1] In 1972, the feminist magazine Ms. began its print run. [1] In December 1972 Ms. published Gould's short story "X: A Fabulous Child's Story" in the Stories for Free Children column in its sixth issue.
Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
"Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story" is a short story written by Roald Dahl first published in Playboy magazine and included in his book Kiss Kiss (1960). It is a fictionalised account based upon a true historical incident. [1] [non-primary source needed] It is also known as A Fine Son.