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  2. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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    A film adaptation of the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", entitled Black Hearts Bleed Red, was made in 1992 by New York filmmaker Jeri Cain Rossi. The film stars noted New York artist Joe Coleman , [ 27 ] but according to reviewers the film does not depict the story well.

  3. Girl (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story is a to-do list and a how-to-do list containing one sentence of a 650 word dialogue. It features what the girl hears from her (implied) mother. The story is mostly told in the second person. The girl hears her mother's instructions and the behavior her mother is trying to instill in her.

  4. They're Made Out of Meat - Wikipedia

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    "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]

  5. Blind men and an elephant - Wikipedia

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    Blind men and the elephant, 1907 American illustration. Blind Men Appraising an Elephant by Ohara Donshu, Edo Period (early 19th century), Brooklyn Museum. The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it.

  6. A Dialogue Among Clever People - Wikipedia

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    A Dialogue Among Clever People" (AKA: "A Talk Among Leisured People") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy published in 1892. Aylmer Maude was one of the first translators. According to literary critic Robert Ellsberg , in this story, an aristocrat articulates about happiness and concludes that happiness can best be found in the ideal of the ...

  7. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Screenplay – a story that is told through dialogue and character action that is meant to be performed for a motion picture and exhibited on a screen. Short story – a brief story that usually focuses on one character and one event. Tall tale – a humorous story that tells about impossible happenings, exaggerating the hero's accomplishments.

  8. Show, don't tell - Wikipedia

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    In his book Constructing a Story and his webseries Hats Off to the Screenwriters!, Yves Lavandier argues that one can show with dialogue. He takes the example of a scene from Prison Break in which pure dialogue between Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and Tweener (Lane Garrison) shows (and does not tell) that Tweener is an expert pickpocket ...

  9. Robbie (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Robbie" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was the first of Asimov's positronic robot stories. In 2016, "'Robbie" won a retrospective 1941 Hugo Award for best short story. [1] "Robbie" was the fourteenth story written by Asimov, and the ninth to be published. It was the first story in Asimov's Robot series.