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Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories; Tales in Time; Thiotimoline; The Time Traveler's Almanac; Time's Arrow (short story) Timegates; Timescapes: Stories of Time Travel; The Toynbee Convector; Twelve Thousand Head of Cattle; Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary
Short story – A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. 1959–1989 The Time Machine series "Donald Keith" alias of Donald & Keith Monroe: Series of 23 short stories published in Boys' Life magazine centered around a patrol of Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. 1961 Danny Dunn, Time Traveler
The time was determined by observing particular stars as they crossed the meridian. [24] The Jantar Mantar in Jaipur built in 1727 by Jai Singh II includes the Vrihat Samrat Yantra, 88 feet (27 m) tall sundial. [25] It can tell local time to an accuracy of about two seconds. [26]
Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.
The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame story of "The Illustrated Man", a vagrant former member of a carnival freak show with an extensively tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets. The man's tattoos, allegedly created by a time-traveling woman, are individually animated, and each tells a different tale.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator's sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed.
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.
Human knowledge is based on stories and the human brain consists of cognitive machinery necessary to understand, remember and tell stories. [23] Humans are storytelling organisms that both individually and socially, lead storied lives. [24] Stories mirror human thought as humans think in narrative structures and most often remember facts in ...