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2. Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection

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   Published in 2010 and edited by Matt Dembicki, Trickster contains twenty-one short stories, all told by Indigenous storytellers from many different native nations. [2] [4] [5] The premise of each short story is to teach a moral lesson or explain how certain natural events happen.

3. A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia ], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit". [2]

4. The Two Brothers and the Gold - Wikipedia

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   The Two Brothers and the Gold" ("Два брата и золото") is a short story by Leo Tolstoy written in 1885. Influence [ edit ] According to Nadejda Gorodetzky, this story discusses the joys of poverty if poverty is willingly accepted. [1]

5. Never Bet the Devil Your Head - Wikipedia

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   The story was published in the September 1841 issue of Graham's Magazine as "Never Bet Your Head: A Moral Tale". Its republication in the August 16, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal included its now-standard title "Never Bet the Devil Your Head". Noted Poe biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn dismissed the story, stating "it is a trifle."

6. The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs - Wikipedia

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   Story and moral. Avianus and Caxton tell different stories of a goose that lays a golden egg, where other versions have a hen, as in Townsend: "A cottager and his wife had a Hen that laid a golden egg every day. They supposed that the Hen must contain a great lump of gold in its inside, and in order to get the gold they killed [her].

7. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. March 1967. " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream " is a post-apocalyptic science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction . The story is set against the backdrop of World War III, where a sentient supercomputer named AM, born from the ...