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  2. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Wikipedia

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    1973. " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas " (/ ˈoʊməˌlɑːs / [1]) is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child ...

  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".

  4. Bloodchild and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 1-56858-055-X (1st ed.) Bloodchild and Other Stories is the only collection of science fiction stories and essays written by American writer Octavia E. Butler. Each story and essay features an afterword by Butler. "Bloodchild", the title story, won the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. It was first published in 1995.

  5. The Lesson (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Lesson” is a first-person narrative told by a young, black girl named Sylvia who is growing up in Brooklyn. The story is about a trip initiated by a well-educated woman named Miss Moore who has taken it upon herself to expose the unappreciative children of the neighborhood to the world outside of their oppressed community. The destination ...

  6. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. June 26, 1948. " The Lottery " is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.

  7. John Updike - Wikipedia

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    John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...

  8. Short story - Wikipedia

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    The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. [citation needed]

  9. 2 B R 0 2 B - Wikipedia

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    See media help. " 2 B R 0 2 B " is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction in January 1962, and later collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B" and references the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William ...

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