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A short story is a piece of prose fiction.It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.
The story is inspired by the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were particularly fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. [ 5 ] The story has been adapted numerous times , most notably as the 1932 RKO Pictures film The Most Dangerous Game , starring Joel McCrea , Leslie Banks and Fay Wray , [ 6 ] and for a 1943 ...
Sideways Stories from Wayside School is a 1978 children's short story cycle novel by American author Louis Sachar, and the first book in the Wayside School series. The novel was later adapted into a Teletoon animated series, Wayside .
"Charles" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in Mademoiselle in July 1948. It was later included in her 1949 collection, The Lottery and Other Stories , and her 1953 novel, Life Among the Savages .
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"Nightfall" [1] is a 1941 science fiction short story by the American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. The short story has appeared in many anthologies and six collections of Asimov stories.
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