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.
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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Caldwell said Sotheby's began talks with the family after a previously unpublished and untitled 12-page, short story by Faulkner was found among literary papers at the family farm in Charlottesville, Va.
Looking past the short-run, China has a great growth story.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Though it feels easier and safer in the short run to place the blame on unreasonable or incompetent co-workers, it is simply not a useful story to tell ourselves.
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.
Flooding in the Midwest is a horror story for the barge transport business, with grains not getting to market and earnings taking a short-term hit.
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