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The novel opens with the famous line: "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." Dowell explains that for nine years he, his wife Florence and their friends Captain Edward Ashburnham (the "good soldier" of the book's title) and his wife Leonora, had an ostensibly normal friendship while Edward and Florence sought treatment for their heart ailments at a spa in Nauheim, Germany.
Telling a story in very few words was dubbed flash fiction in 1992. The six-word limit in particular has spawned the concept of Six-Word Memoirs, [8] including a collection published in book form in 2008 by Smith Magazine, and two sequels published in 2009.
At the end of the story, the stump was sad that the old man chose to sit under the shade of the other tree. [21] In 2010, two parodies were published by different authors, The Taking Tree and The Taking Tree: A Selfish Parody, [35] [36] that use comedy to change the story and its message.
No one knows the genre of sad romance movies better than Nicholas Sparks, who wrote the O.G. 2006 book, Dear John, about two beautiful humans, one love story, and too many tears to count. Amanda ...
"Eric and the Dread Gazebo" also known as just “The Gazebo story" [1] is a role-playing game-inspired anecdote, made famous by Richard Aronson (designer of The Ruins of Cawdor, a graphical MUD, and the voice of Cedric in King's Quest V). Aronson's account first appeared in print in the APA Alarums and Excursions #139, (March, 1987).
"When I hear 'Time in a Bottle,' all I think about is Jim Croce leaving behind his little boy. I still like the song and appreciate it, but it makes me sad every time I hear it."View Entire Post ›
Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug ("The Very Sad Tale with the Matches"): A girl plays with matches, accidentally ignites herself and burns to death. Only her cats mourn her. Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben ("The Story of the Inky Boys"): Nikolas (or "Agrippa" in some translations) [7] catches three boys teasing a dark ...
2. 1348 – Black Death. The Black Death, one of history’s deadliest pandemics, ravaged Europe from 1347 to 1351. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and primarily spread by fleas on rats ...