"...the pain of saying goodbye and moving on." Write a short story inspired by the above phrase. Bright lights. Clean walls. Clean floors. Pale uniforms. People rushing back and forth through the corridors. That nauseating smell that lingers in your nostrils for hours after you leave. Blood slipped down the left side of his face‚ dripping off his chin‚ slowly forming a tiny puddle between his legs. His hair was a mess‚ his clothes soaked - ragged in places where the medics had cut them to check
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In "A Wife’s Story" written by Bharati Mukherjee‚ the narrator is an Indian woman named Panna who has left India to get a Ph. D. in special education in Manhattan. The story illustrates the relationship between Panna and her match-made husband who has come to visit her in Manhattan. Panna is drifting away from her husband because of the cultural changes she is going through. She has changed and he has not‚ thus the gap between them widens. My own marriage is not through match-making‚ and yet it has
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English 180: Solberg Fall 2012 Final Exam Study Guide OVERVIEW 1. The final is Wednesday December 12‚ from 1-4:00 p.m. in MLC 2 (basement computer lab). Plan to arrive ahead of time and to spend the full three hours on the exam (you likely will not need three hours‚ but it’s a good idea to block out the full time just in case). Bring pens or pencils and all books we have read so far this semester. 2. I design the final exam to test what I expect you to know at the depth I expect you
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House of Nightmares He stumbled through the snow‚ hugging himself in a desperate attempt to stay warm. The blizzard raged around him‚ battering him so much he could barely see‚ snow clinging to his frozen face. If he didn’t find shelter immediately‚ he would die. He stopped. In front of him was a tree‚ or what could only be called a tree. Its bark was dull and rotten underneath the snow but its few thin branches offered slight protection from the storm. He quickly got under it‚ cleared a space for
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Stories among Us Mei Li was born in Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia on July 17‚ 1971. She was a happy and healthy baby. As she grew up‚ she had the urge to go to America. She wanted the job opportunities that the US had offered‚ but she was scared. She would be the first person of her family to go to America. She would have to go alone and explore this unfamiliar place. After comparing the pros and cons‚ she made up her mind. Mei flew from Malaysia to New York. She got a job as a hairdresser nearby her apartment
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III honors 14 October 2011 The Short Stories Quiet‚ But Aggressive Approach Novels are superfluous while short stories strive for flawlessness‚ ensuring meticulously picked details and succinct plots. The short story utilizes the complex and vivid words the English language has to offer‚ painting pictures in the minds of the reader‚ while the novel overwhelms the reader with redundant and arbitrarily picked language. Steven Millhauser says that Short stories illustrate the message or meaning that
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Annette Keen Jake arrives at Euston station in London. It is a holiday weekend and it is his first time away from Manchester. Jake is eighteen years old and he lives with his family. Now he is in London. He is very happy. He stops and looks at his map. ’I can go to the Notting Hill Carnival and I can see some interesting places from the bus too‚’ he thinks. Jake is sitting on a red London bus behind a big family. The children are standing at the windows. They are looking for famous
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5 Important Elements of a Short Story A short story is a short work of fiction. Fiction‚ as you know‚ is prose writing about imagined events and characters. Prose writing differs from poetry in that it does not depend on verses‚ meters or rhymes for its organization and presentation. Novels are another example of fictional prose and are much longer than short stories. Some short stories‚ however‚ can be quite long. If a a short story is a long one‚ say fifty to one hundred pages‚ we call it
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As a storyteller for children‚ I would like to share my latest favourite story for primary aged children. This comes from a book by Anne Rockwell. The Story Snail Lee’s version of a story by Anne Rockwell Once upon a time there was a boy named John. John was a nice boy‚ and a kind boy‚ but there was nothing that he was really good at doing. Nothing at all. Everyone laughed at him and teased him. So one day‚ he ran away. He ran away to the paddock and he hid in the long tall grass
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Within the first pages of the book‚ introduces us to the world of short stories. It lets us know that throughout the 19th and 20th centuries that Americans found stories in random places such as newspapers‚ all manners of magazines and they gained a wide variety of attention from critics as an essential part of literary studies Creative writing classes pop up at American universities and colleges drastically in the past 30 years. Bookstores‚ coffeehouses seemed to sponsor author readings and meetings
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