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100 Word Story is a literary magazine that was founded in 2011 by writers Grant Faulkner and Lynn Mundell in Berkeley, California.It publishes stories and essays that are exactly 100 words in length (also known as a drabble); each piece is published with an accompanying photo.
100 Word Story is an online literary journal that was co-founded in 2011 by Grant Faulkner and Lynn Mundell. [9] It publishes stories that are exactly 100 words long. The web has also enabled a rapid spread of the genre, with publishers such as The Third Word Press using the web to collect drabble stories. [10]
The tale with its easy-to-grasp moral has become a classic children's story and was adapted in January 1991 as a 30-minute animated film [6] produced in the United Kingdom and co-financed in the United Kingdom and the United States. The film named the famous little engine Tillie and expanded the narrative into a larger story of self-discovery.
The story was likely intended as a literature primer for young readers, but departed from highly moralistic, often religious stories written for the same purpose. Adaptations throughout the 1880s incorporated appealing illustrations in order to hold the reader's attention as interest became more relevant to reading lessons.
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, The Grasshopper (1872), National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Because of the influence of La Fontaine's Fables, in which La cigale et la fourmi stands at the beginning, the grasshopper then became the proverbial example of improvidence in France: so much so that Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911) could paint a picture of a female nude biting one of her nails among ...
Be sure to follow the appropriate guidelines for jokes and 100-word true stories. Pay: $100. Categories/Topics: Jokes or true personal stories (100 words or fewer) 5. Unemploymentville.
In 2011, Faulkner and Lynn Mundell co-founded 100 Word Story, an online literary journal that publishes stories that are exactly 100 words long. [5] Stories published in 100 Word Story have been included on Wigleaf’s Top (Very) Short Fictions list [6] and anthologized in the annual Best Small Fictions series and W.W Norton's New Micro ...
Come celebrate Reader's Digest's 100th anniversary with a century of funny jokes, moving quotes, heartwarming stories, and riveting dramas. The post 100 Years of Reader’s Digest: People, Stories ...