Tag: short story
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30 Stories, Day 15: The Nightingale and the Rose
I was saving the one by Oscar Wilde like a rare coin—I knew it was going to be good. Now, halfway through my 30 day challenge of reading and reporting on short stories, I present to you one of the most heart-wrenching and beautiful short stories I have ever read. (Highly recommend it! Readable online […]
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30 Stories, Day 6: The Door
On the sixth day of 30 Short Stories, my anthology gave to me…a wonderfully nonsensical story by a renowned grammar nazi! (Apologies for the shabby rhyme. Ahem:) “The Door” by E.B. White “More and more (he kept saying) I am confronted by a problem which is incapable of solution (for this time, even if I […]
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30 Stories, Day 3: A Sound of Thunder
Hello, wordsmiths! Today is the third installment in my venture to read 30 short stories in 30 days with the long-term goal of improving my writing. Today I report on this: “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury “Anything happens to you, we’re not responsible. … Six Safari leaders were killed last year, and a […]
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30 Stories, Day 1: The Saucier’s Apprentice
Alright lads, today I’m making good on the first of my writing resolutions for the year: to read thirty short stories in thirty days, and post here after each one. I’m reading primarily to help my writing and specifically my short stories, but I imagine there will be other benefits, too: vocabulary, the chance to […]
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Writing Challenge, Day 8: Ghosts, Superhorses, and Sock Monsters
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 8: How old were you when you started writing? What did you write? I started writing in grade school. To be honest, memories of my earliest work are vague, but here is what I recall: 1st or 2nd grade I wrote a short story having to do with […]
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