There are so many reasons to love short stories; not least their ability to immerse us in new worlds in the time it takes to commute to work, or the common themes that weave through anthologies to ...

What is a limerick? The first, second and fifth lines of a limerick rhyme. What is a nonsense poem? Nonsense poems don't always make sense, they often use made up words, mixed up with real words.

Here’s a look at some of the greatest of his stories and the obsessions that shaped his work. 'On a Tangent', artwork by Maciej Kamuda, photo: Wydawnictwo Vesper Published originally in 1918, On a ...

The best way to understand what is required in short story writing is to read short stories by different authors. There are many good anthologies of short stories available in libraries or bookshops.

You can finally read this Ernest Hemingway story about Paris after WWII In 1956, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his publisher about five short stories he had written: “You can always publish them ...

essayist and critic and her debut collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties, received great acclaim. For fans of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood, Machado’s stories combine ...

She has a huge mansion with four stories that sometimes gives me the creeps. “Hey!” Layla said Scaring me “Since it’s October we should play a scary game!” I thought for a second as I ...

Second Stories follows on the heels of the enormously successful First Stories project, which produced 3 separate collections of short films from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Second Stories ...

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THE END 2nd Place: “Lonely Ghost,” Christopher Casseday, Salem-Liberty Elementary Once upon a time, there was a ghost, but he was the only ghost and he was lonely. So he got a baseball bat and ...