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Arinze Ifeakandu is a Nigerian writer known for the collection of his short stories, God's Children Are Little Broken Things, [1] which won the Dylan Thomas Prize [2] and the Republic of Consciousness Prize for the US and Canada, [3] and was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize, [4] the Lambda Awards, [5] and received the Story Prize's Spotlight Award. [6]
"Where Love Is, God Is" is a short story about a shoemaker named Martin Avdeitch. The story begins with a background on Martin's life. He was a fine cobbler as he did his work well and never promised to do anything that he could not do. He stayed busy with his work in his basement which had only one window.
God's World (Dunyā Allah) is a short story collection by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz.The collection consists of fourteen stories, long and short. In his collection, Mahfouz takes the reader through Al-Ḥusayn suburbs and Al-'Abbasiyya streets before stopping on Alexandria’s beach and passing through the cemeteries before taking them to a wedding, leading out of a mosque, and finally ...
God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion. — "Hell Is the Absence of God", page 189 [ 3 ] The story is set in a world where the existence of God , souls , Heaven , and Hell are obvious and indisputable, and where miracles and angelic visitations are commonplace—albeit not ...
Two boats and a helicopter, the instruments of rescue most frequently cited in the parable, during a coastguard rescue demonstration. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each ...
Loopy Ears, God's Tree. The Old Port (Stary port, Старый порт). Poslednye Novosti, 1927, No.2468. December 15, under the title "The Companion" (Спутник). Mitya’s Love. Under the new title was included into the God's Tree book. Just a Fuss (Suyeta Suyet, Суета сует). Vozrozhdenye, 1927, February 24.
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“Pigeon Feathers” is a work of short fiction by John Updike which first appeared in The New Yorker on April 27, 1956. The story was collected in Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories (1962) by Alfred A. Knopf. [1] “Pigeon Feathers” was listed among the recipients of the O. Henry Award in 1962. [2]