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Short stories have their origins in oral story-telling traditions and the prose anecdote, a swiftly-sketched situation that quickly comes to its point. With the rise of the comparatively realistic novel, the short story evolved as a miniature version, with some of its first perfectly independent examples in the tales of E...
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Short stories have their origins in oral story-telling traditions and the prose anecdote, a swiftly-sketched situation that quickly comes to its point. With the rise of the comparatively realistic novel, the short story evolved as a miniature version, with some of its first perfectly independent examples in the tales of E...
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short story The roses flourished early one morning in the forest of Torus. As the birds chirped and sang the pixies awoke and felt the cool breeze sweep across the backs of their necks...	4 / 900
short story Lennie got up and watched Curley's wife for a while. He finally picked her up and tried to make her stand but she would just fall since she was already dead...	2 / 489
Short (Ghost) story But within this never ending hell hole of a town, I sat. Sitting on the corner of a pavement, slowly staring down towards my cupped hands. I rest my head on the cold hard knuckles of my stiff fists...	5 / 1130
short story It was about one-thirty in the morning in the town of Homestead Michigan. The almost fluorescent light of the moon bouncing off the fresh puddles that covered the ground...	3 / 776
Short Story Through the cold, misty air in winter time, Rick walked towards his car. The time read ten past four, just enough time to buy something for Sandra and get home after his new daily routine...	3 / 655
Short Story recognize the number on the screen so I just stared at the device until the voicemail notification sounded. "C'mon man," said my band mate Sam. I pushed the cell phone back into my pocket and got out of the van with the other guys...	8 / 2074
Short Story The day I was born, my dad walked out. Mum said he was a dead beat, but he still always sent money to support me. This money was never spent on me, always on mum's cigarettes and the cans of lager her new boyfriend required...	6 / 1509