Scarlet ibis. By James Hurst.
It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The flower garden was stained with rotting brown magnolia petals and ironweeds grew rank amid the purple phlox. The five o'clocks by the chimney still marked time, but the oriole nest in the elm was untenanted and rocked back and forth like an empty cradle. The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softly the names of our dead.
It's strange hat all this is still so clear to me, now that that summer has since fled and time has had its way. But sometimes (like right now), as I sit in the cool, green-draped parlor, the grindstone begins to turn, and time with all its changes is ground away--and I remember Doodle. SMITH Magazine Six-Word Memoirs. Six-Word Memoirs. Six-Word Memoirs is a project founded by the U.S.
-based online storytelling magazine Smith Magazine. Like that publication, Six-Word Memoirs seek to provide a platform for storytelling in all its forms. History[edit] In November 2006, Smith's editors Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser gave the six-word story a personal twist, asking Smith readers to tell their life story in just six-words.
Smith readers submitted their six-words via www.smithmag.net, and Smith's Twitter account. Short stories. A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor He looked into her eyes.
. - Length: 20 pages - Age Rating: U - Genre: Fiction When I was younger I fell in love with a performance artist. . - Age Rating: 15. Short Story. Storyville: Top Ten Best Short Stories Ever. How dare I make a list of the top ten short stories ever, right?
Who the hell do I think I am? Well, obviously I’m a fan of fiction, of the short story form. I’m also an author. And I now have my MFA in Creative Writing as well. Does that make me an authority? Most of these stories are heavily anthologized or are available in a collection by that author. In no particular order: 1. If you want to know what contemporary literary horror looks like, this is the place to go. Buy I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories from Amazon.com 2. For many people, this may be the only bit of her writing that they've ever read. 3. I’ve always been a fan of JCO, and her writing is literary fiction that isn’t afraid to take you over the cliff, never to return. 4. If you haven’t read his collection Jesus’ Son, by all means pick it up now.
Grimms-Fairy-Tales.pdf. 14 Fantastic Stories From The New Yorker Archive You Should Read This Summer. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Short stories at east of the web. The longest joke in the world. A man in the desert. So, there’s a man crawling through the desert.
He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn’t get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. Stone Mattress - The New Yorker. At the outset Verna had not intended to kill anyone.
What she had in mind was a vacation, pure and simple. Take a breather, do some inner accounting, shed worn skin. The Arctic suits her: there’s something inherently calming in the vast cool sweeps of ice and rock and sea and sky, undisturbed by cities and highways and trees and the other distractions that clutter up the landscape to the south.
Among the clutter she includes other people, and by other people she means men. She’s had enough of men for a while. George Saunders (1958-____ ) The Falls by George Saunders (b.1958) Approximate Word Count: 3801 Morse found it nerve-racking to cross the St.
Jude grounds just as the school was being dismissed, because he felt that if he smiled at the uniformed Catholic children they might think he was a wacko or pervert and if he didn't smile they might think he was an old grouch made bitter by the world, which surely, he felt, by certain yardsticks, he was. Sometimes he wasn't entirely sure that he wasn't even a wacko of sorts, although certainly he wasn't a pervert. 10 Free Stories by George Saunders, Author of Tenth of December, “The Best Book You’ll Read This Year” For writers and serious readers, George Saunders is anything but a newcomer.
Saunders published his first short story with The New Yorker back in 1992, and his new stories have regularly debuted in the magazine's Fiction section ever since. Over the years, he has gained the reputation of being a "writer's writer," with authors like Tobias Wolff saying about Saunders: “He’s been one of the luminous spots of our literature for the past 20 years.” But despite his literary accomplishments, and despite winning the prestigious MacArthur award in 2006, George Saunders never quite became a household name until January 6 of this year. Storyville: Top Ten Best Short Stories Ever. Short Stories. 10 Free Stories by George Saunders, Author of Tenth of December, “The Best Book You’ll Read This Year”
George Saunders: “I want to tell the truth about what really matters in a simple way” George Saunders has a Guggenheim and a MacArthur, was called one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, and was credited with changing the trajectory of American fiction by the Wall Street Journal.
Well, that’s true, yes, but the really surprising thing about Saunders in 2013 is that he became a New York Times best-selling writer with his latest story collection, “Tenth of December.” There might not have been more heartening literary news all year than the fact that one of our bravest and most essential voices found the mass audience to match.
Let alone a generous, kind guy.