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Murder in the Dark is a collection of short fiction by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1983. Some of the pieces were previously published. [ 1 ] The 27 pieces range over a variety of styles, including fictionalized autobiography, parables, travel stories, satires and prose poems.
Most of the stories are related to Crutcher's early work and often come from his experience as a family counselor. [1] This book also contains the short story "A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune" which first appeared in Connections, edited by Donald R. Gallo, published in 1989 by Delacorte Press. It was adapted into the film Angus. The ...
No Comebacks is a 1982 collection of ten short stories by English writer Frederick Forsyth.Each story takes place in a different setting and ends with a plot twist. Several of them involve a central male character without any apparent strength who is put under pressure, but who does not g
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 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.
A Barthelme collection like 'Sixty Stories' is a Whole Earth Catalogue of life in our time." [ 1 ] In The New York Times Book Review , critic John Romano called Barthelme a "comic genius," adding, "The will to please us, to make us sit up and laugh with surprise, is greater than the will to disconcert.
"Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2)" is a horror short story by Stephen King, first published in the 1980 anthology New Terrors, edited by Ramsey Campbell, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. It was adapted from an unfinished novel called "The Milkman".
Nothing Serious is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 21 July 1950 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 24 May 1951 by Doubleday & Co., New York. [1] It was published again in 2008 by The Overlook Press.