Others, such as my favorite living short-story writer, Alice Munro, may start with a memory.
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It was the second day of a short-story course, and all the students were at loose outdoors with notebooks and pens.
Like Anton Chekhov, the Russian playwright and short-story teller to whom she is so often compared, she alchemised ordinary lives into great literature.
Readers will know Ms Maitland as a novelist and short-story writer.
Among other of Mr. Bradbury's widely known works were "The Martian Chronicles, " "The Illustrated Man, " both short-story collections, and "Something Wicked This Way Comes, " a novel.
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More than a dozen novels and short-story collections followed.
Eighteen years ago, John Sayles might have boiled down this back-to-basics portrait of a paralyzed, bitter white soap star (Mary McDonnell) and her strong-willed black caretaker (Alfre Woodard) into a twenty-page short story.
Caldwell said Sotheby's began talks with the family after a previously unpublished and untitled 12-page, short story by Faulkner was found among literary papers at the family farm in Charlottesville, Va.
Two of the leading actors in The Suit which is based on an award-winning 1953 short story by South African journalist Canodoise Daniel Themba and is set in the Johannesburg settlement of Sophiatown said the story is still relevant today, despite the passage of time since it was written.
On the side, he wrote fiction, including two short story collections and seven novels, which ranged from a coming-of-age story about a rebellious teenager who gets thrown out of school, to a book about a middle-age man who befriends a gangster to impress his son.
Looking past the short-run, China has a great growth story.
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Dedicated to creating "inspirational ... films that offer compelling, positive messages, " Crusader's first film will be something called Sound of Thunder, based on a Ray Bradbury short story about a posse of big-game hunters who go back in time to chase dinosaurs and change history.
Right now, I see the Lime story as a short term (1-2 year) turnaround play.
Long story short, hosting the NBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas was truly a novelty and the prices reflected this.
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The short version of this only-in-Silicon Valley story is this: I live in Palo Alto, in a section south of Oregon Expressway called Midtown.
So how did a slender 33-year-old woman in panther leggings, with one short story to her name, get teed up to be the next big thing in publishing?
But there are hitches in the story, and they have attracted the interest of short-sellers and other assorted naysayers.
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"Instead of betting on short-term cycles, people are investing in the longer-term story" of U.S. economic growth backed by innovation in shale-gas technology, said Kunihiro Asai, Nikko Asset Management's head of product development.
Short story about two neighbors in a California canyon, a thirteen-year-old boy, Dill, who lives with his mother, and a Japanese man, Sanjuro, who lives with his wife.
ABSTRACT:Short story about two neighbors in a California canyon, a thirteen-year-old boy, Dill, who lives with his mother, and a Japanese man, Sanjuro, who lives with his wife.
Isobel Harwood, 12, and seven-year-old Isobel Murray took the top prizes in the 500 Words short story contest, which was judged by Dame Jacqueline Wilson and David Walliams, amongst others.
It kicks it squarely through the goalposts with a mind-blowing story set in an alternate reality that may be only a short trip from our real-world track.
This is a single short story, so it is hard to say too much without going spoiler-crazy.
Premium on the calls will, in such a climate, continue to appreciate and may allow for short-term profit-taking in the absence of any significant revision to the current story.
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The story also illustrates the key advantages of planning for the long term versus short-term strategic development.
From there, short story writers contributed their take on World War E, creating yet another sub-reddit.
But this digital Battle of Verdun is not the only challenge for Google as Mozilla is also launching its mobile operating system: FirefoxOS. To make a long story short, FirefoxOS is the equivalent of ChromeOS for smartphones: a light-weight mobile operating system where the user interface and all applications are web-based.
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The story is similar with its top bond fund, the Virtus Multi-Sector Short Term Bond Fund, run by Virtus-owned money manager Newfleet Asset Management.
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The company unveiled its slate of 2013-14 offerings Thursday, which also includes a stage adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's beloved short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" adapted by British playwright Roy Williams.
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