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Games and Rituals, by Katherine Heiny All 11 of these stories are jewels of wit and insight, but if you read only one, make it “Damascus,” in which a mother confronts her son’s developing ...
The DVD also contains an extended version of the story with more background and detail than the one included in the trilogy. Owl Creek Bridge, a 2008 short film by director John Giwa-Amu, won the BAFTA Cymru Award for best short. The story was adapted to follow the last days of Khalid, a young boy who is caught by a gang of racist youths.
Short story – A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. 1959–1989 The Time Machine series "Donald Keith" alias of Donald & Keith Monroe: Series of 23 short stories published in Boys' Life magazine centered around a patrol of Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. 1961 Danny Dunn, Time Traveler
According to Ellison, the short story is a warning about "the misuse of technology" (especially military technology), [12] and its ending is meant to represent how there's "a spark of humanity in us, that in the last, final, most excruciating moment, will do the unspeakable in the name of kindness", even sacrificing oneself for others' sake. [11]
"They're Made Out of Meat" is a short story by American writer Terry Bisson. It was originally published in OMNI. [1] It consists entirely of dialogue between two characters. Bisson's website hosts a theatrical adaptation. [2] A film adaptation won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Museum's 2006 film festival. [3]
"Last Contact" is a science fiction short story published in 2007 by Stephen Baxter. ... Caitlin asks about the interstellar messages Maureen said had no need to be ...
As neighborhoods in Southern California continue to face the destruction left behind from wildfires in the area, many parents are having to come to terms with how to explain this to their children.
The structure of this short story is a fable told from the point of view of a Puerto Rican parrot, a critically endangered species endemic to Puerto Rico.It describes the country's Arecibo radio telescope and how, in 1974, the telescope was used to broadcast a radio message from humanity into deep space to demonstrate humanity's intelligence.