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The signs lead to a roadside stall where Phil encounters the Answer Man, who advertises that he will answer questions for five minutes for $25 (equivalent to $530 in 2023). While assuming the Answer Man is a fraud, Phil eventually decides to pay him in an attempt to help resolve his dilemma. After the five minutes begin, the Answer Man stuns ...
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story first appeared in the Fall 1966 edition of Epoch magazine. It was inspired by three Tucson, Arizona murders committed by Charles Schmid, which were profiled in Life magazine in an article written by Don Moser on March 4 ...
"The Three Questions" is a 1903 short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.
Publication. " An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge " (1890) is a short story by American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce, [ 1 ] described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature". [ 2 ] It was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, and was first collected in ...
Pages. 45. " Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street " is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a ...
"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and in the anthologies in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete ...
The Answer (short story) "The Answer" was originally published in the December 1959 issue of Fantastic Universe. " The Answer " is a science fiction short story by American writer H. Beam Piper. It is not a part of either Piper’s Terro-Human Future History series nor his Paratime series.
Leiningen Versus the Ants. " Leiningen Versus the Ants " by Carl Stephenson is a classic short story published in the December 1938 edition of Esquire. It is a translation, probably by Stephenson himself, of "Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen" which was originally published in German in 1937.