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"Rain" is a short story by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham. It was originally published as " Miss Thompson " in the April 1921 issue of the American literary magazine The Smart Set , [ 1 ] and was included in the collection of stories by Maugham The Trembling of a Leaf .
One of the stories, "Home", was a 2011 Bram Stoker Award finalist. [1] Tenth of December was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. [2] The collection also won The Story Prize (2013) for short-story collections [3] and the inaugural Folio Prize (2014). [4] [5] [6] [7]
Rain is a 1932 pre-Code drama film that stars Joan Crawford as prostitute Sadie Thompson. Directed by Lewis Milestone and set in the South Seas , the production was filmed in part at Santa Catalina Island and what is now Crystal Cove State Park in California.
The story "Rain, Rain, Go Away" concerns a seemingly perfect family, the Sakkaros, who become neighbors of another family, the Wrights. The Wrights are puzzled at the great lengths the Sakkaros go to avoid any contact with water, such as when Mrs. Wright tells her husband that Mrs. Sakkaro's kitchen was so clean, it seemed to be never used, and when she offered Mrs. Wright a glass of water she ...
Slow Learner is the 1984 published collection of five early short stories by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, originally published in various sources between 1959 and 1964. The book is also notable for its introduction, written by Pynchon.
Unlike Angel, Barty cannot extend his power to Vanadium so he can walk in the rain without getting wet. Near the end of the story, he helps Angel, Grace, and Celestina move into the Lampions' house. After finding Junior's former lawyer's severed head in a cooler at his and Paul's house, Vanadium arrives just in time to distract Junior enough ...
"The Long Rain" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1950 under a different title in the magazine Planet Stories, and then in the collection The Illustrated Man. The story tells of four men who have crashed on Venus, where it is always raining.
The story was first published in issue 3 of the magazine Midnight Graffiti in spring 1989. In 1993, it was republished in King's short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes collection. [1] In 2006, a version of the story illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne was published as part of the Cemetery Dance Publications book The Secretary of Dreams ...