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"Jeffty Is Five" is a fantasy short story by American author Harlan Ellison. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1977, then was included in DAW's The 1978 Annual World's Best SF in 1978 and Ellison's short story collection Shatterday two years later.
A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886 "A White Heron" is a short story by Sarah Orne Jewett. First published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1886, it was soon collected as the title story in Jewett's anthology A White Heron and Other Stories. It follows a young city girl named Sylvia who comes to live with her grandmother in the country.
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a compilation of 43 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1989. It begins with a foreword by Charles Scribner II and a preface written by Bruccoli, after which the stories follow in chronological order of publication.
The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) [1] [2] is a posthumous 1998 collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are ...
"The Scarlet Ibis" is a short story written by James Hurst. [1] It was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1960 [2] and won the "Atlantic First" award. [3] The story has become a classic of American literature, and has been frequently republished in high school anthologies and other collections.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Though the story boasts multiple scenarios, Atwood declares in her writing the only "authentic ending" is the one where John and Mary die. This gives readers six scenarios, and one ending. Atwood has spoken on the story saying, "l did not know what sort of creature it was. lt was not a poem, a short story, or a prose poem. lt was not quite a ...
A Story Without a Beginning or an Ending (Ḥikaya Bila Bidaya Wala Nihaya) is one of Mahfouz's most controversial works. In fact, the TV series adaptation's screenplay writer said that no one dared adapt the novel into any form of visual or auditory media, and it is Mahfouz's only work to not get adapted due to the controversial topics it ...