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2. Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Wikipedia

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   5. Todd Todd is a good student, but he always gets in trouble due to Mrs. Jewls' selectively enforcing the rules, as he was the first student to speak out loud in her class. Her class works on a three-strike system: first, the student's name is written on the board, then a checkmark is written next to it.

3. Short story - Wikipedia

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   Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...

4. Malgudi Days (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]

5. The Machine Stops - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. November 1909. " The Machine Stops " is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that ...

6. List of short stories by Alice Munro - Wikipedia

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   06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009. 12 = Dear Life – 2012. Compilations. s96 = Selected Stories – 1996. s03 = No Love Lost – 2003. s04 = Vintage Munro – 2004. s06 = Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006/ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006; both with an ...

7. Unbelievable (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   A boy who is a fan of horror films and isn't scared of anything leaves his sister at home alone for a night because she has stolen his rented scary movie. He decides to rest for a night at an old house, but it turns out to be the home of a student spook who has an upcoming exam; if the student fails his exam to scare the boy, he'll be frozen ...