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William and Mary" is a short story by Roald Dahl, originally published in 1959 and included in his 1960 collection Kiss Kiss. It was later adapted into episodes of Way Out , Late Night Horror and Tales of the Unexpected , [ 1 ] as well as The Price of Fear .
The Toronto Star reviewer, Steven W. Beattie, notes that the eight stories in the second part are preoccupied with how "we tell stories, the motivation behind this practice, and the ways stories get passed down among individuals, generations and entire cultures," and the "Tig and Nell stories rank with the best short fiction Atwood has produced ...
Getting Married (Swedish: Giftas) is a collection of short stories by the Swedish writer August Strindberg. [1] The first volume was first published on 27 September 1884 and contained twelve stories depicting "twenty marriages of every variety," some of which present women in an egalitarian light. [ 2 ]
In these edgy stories set in Appalachia and the Deep South, Black women face the full monty of modern life—weirdo predators, bogus jobs, ill-fated pregnancies, the nightmares of weight control ...
Games and Rituals, by Katherine Heiny All 11 of these stories are jewels of wit and insight, but if you read only one, make it “Damascus,” in which a mother confronts her son’s developing ...
"The Married Couple" (German: "Das Ehepaar") is a 1922 short story by Franz Kafka. It was published posthumously in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931). The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in The Great Wall of China.
In 2024, the New York Times ranked the book #23 of the best 100 books of the 21st century. [9] "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" features as the closing piece in the 2008 short story collection, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro, edited by novelist Jeffrey Eugenides. Two of the stories were adapted into films.
Russell's stories have been featured in The Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, Oxford American, and Zoetrope. [3]She was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" young writer honoree at the November 2009 ceremony [4] for her first short story collection, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, for which Russell won the Bard Fiction Prize in 2011.