About Short Story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.
Kong Yiji: The memes that lay bare China's youth disillusionment
... And it s finding expression in viral memes inspired by a famous Short Story from more than a century ago...
France: Paris Champs-Élysées hosts mass spelling contest
... In the first, 1,397 people wrestled with an excerpt from a Short Story by 19th Century author Alphonse Daudet...
Hamida Banu: Indian wrestler whose ‘marriage bout' no one could win
... In her Short Story Daalan Wala, Hyder writes of her domestic helper Faqira going to watch a wrestling match in Mumbai and returning to say no one had been able to defeat " the lioness"...
Haruki Murakami: Readers drawn to enigmatic appeal of Japanese author
... His Short Story Sleep, published in 1993 about a housewife who struggles to go to bed at night, was viewed as a response to Japanese family and gender norms...
Fay Weldon: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil author dies aged 91
... Weldon also won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award the same year for Wicked Women, a Short Story collection...
'I have worked from home in 78 different countries'
... " So I started calling myself a digital nomad, even wrote a Short Story about it...
James Bond: Duo were 'privileged' to write new ending for 007
... Its title came from a Fleming Short Story of 1959 but otherwise the men had to create a totally new story...
Roger Angell: Baseball's reluctant poet laureate dies at 101
... " Angell was born into a literary family in New York in September 1920 and began his lengthy association with the New Yorker in 1944, when the magazine published a Short Story of his...
