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  2. A Dreary Story - Wikipedia

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    Such themes are totally new to me, and I am a bit wary of my own inexperience. In other words, I wouldn't like to come up with something stupid." [3] In a 7 September letter he informed Anna Yevreinova about working upon his new story and the difficulties that he has had, continuously re-shaping it and then re-writing the finale. After the ...

  3. Sturgeon's law - Wikipedia

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    It is in this vein that I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of S.F. is crud. The Revelation Ninety percent of everything is crud. Corollary 1

  4. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber - Wikipedia

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    "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Set in Africa, it was published in the September 1936 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine concurrently with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". The story was eventually adapted to the screen as the Zoltan Korda film The Macomber Affair (1947).

  5. Mary Sue - Wikipedia

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    These stories feature young, attractive, and exceptionally gifted female heroines who serve as the author's self-insertion into the story. [8] They often resolve the conflict of the story, win the love of the other characters and die a heroic death at the end. [16] Mary Sue stories are often written by adolescent authors. An author may create a ...

  6. 50 common hyperbole examples to use in your everyday life

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    This outfit cost me an arm and a leg. That movie was so creepy, I’m going to crawl out of my skin. My to-do list is longer than the Mississippi. That class was so boring it seemed like time stopped.

  7. List of short stories by Alice Munro - Wikipedia

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    Title See also Journal 68 71 74 78 82 86 90 94 98 01 04 06 09 12 s96 s03 s04 s06 s11 A Basket of Strawberries: 1953-11: A Queer Streak: x: A Real Life

  8. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - Wikipedia

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    "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is an old proverb that means without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring. It is often shortened to "all work and no play". [ 1 ] It was newly popularized after the phrase was featured in the 1980 horror film, The Shining .

  9. Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories - Wikipedia

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    Some material, first published in The Complete Short Stories (1987), is not included in this edition, as Fenton determined that it was not properly classified as short stories. This includes "One Trip Across" and "Tradesman's Return" (the first two parts of To Have and Have Not ); and "An African Story" (filleted from various chapters of The ...