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  2. Her Body and Other Parties - Wikipedia

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    In the story, all women have a specific location and color to their ribbon. The narrator talks the reader through her sexual explorations, marriage, motherhood, and the extent in which the "good" men in her life lead to her demise. The short story begins at a party where the narrator meets her future husband and the father to her child.

  3. Getting Married (collection) - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  4. The Married Couple - Wikipedia

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    "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.

  5. The Best Short Stories for an Instant Escape - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Collection of short stories, including two about a man's attempt to save his failing marriage by travelling back to the time he first met his wife. 2002 Kaleidoscope Century: John Barnes: A man on Mars has a virus that puts him to sleep every 15 years, and he wakes 10 younger. He learns of a way to go back to the past. 2002 The Eyre Affair ...

  7. Fragile Things - Wikipedia

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    Fragile Things won the 2007 Locus Award for Best Collection, and "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" won for Best Short Story and was nominated for a Hugo Award. [1] Other Locus Award winners included in this collection are "Sunbird" (2006 short story), "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire" (2005 short story), "A Study in Emerald" (2004 ...

  8. Guru Prasad Mainali - Wikipedia

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    Guru Prasad Mainali (Nepali: गुरुप्रसाद मैनाली; 7 September 1900 – 8 June 1971) was a Nepalese short story writer and civil servant. [1] Mainali is considered one of the best short story writers of Nepali literature. He is best known for his short story anthology Naso.

  9. The Story of a Brief Marriage - Wikipedia

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    It turns our focus not only on the brutality of war, but also on the blessing of life.", [4] Novelist Colm Toibin praised Arudpragasam's dense and attentive style: "Every image in the book, including the most desolate, is rendered with precision and an aura of pure truth and tenderness.", [5] Neera Majumdar of ThePrint wrote "The Story of a ...