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  2. To Build a Fire - Wikipedia

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    1902, 1908. " To Build a Fire " is a short story by American author Jack London. There are two versions of this story. The first one was published in 1902, and the other was published in 1908. The story written in 1908 has become an often anthologized classic, while the 1902 story is less well known. The 1908 version is about an unnamed male ...

  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. Short story - Wikipedia

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    Early examples of short stories were published separately between 1790 and 1810, but the first true collections of short stories appeared between 1810 and 1830 in several countries. The first short stories in the United Kingdom were gothic tales like Richard Cumberland's "remarkable narrative", "The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791).

  5. Short story cycle - Wikipedia

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    Short story cycle. A short story cycle (sometimes referred to as a story sequence or composite novel) [1] is a collection of short stories in which the narratives are specifically composed and arranged with the goal of creating an enhanced or different experience when reading the group as a whole as opposed to its individual parts. [2]

  6. List of science fiction short stories - Wikipedia

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    1975. A Braver Thing. Charles Sheffield. Asimov's Science Fiction. 1990. A Cabin on the Coast. Gene Wolfe. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. 1984.

  7. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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    "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. 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. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...

  8. The Story of an Hour - Wikipedia

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    Vogue [1] " The Story of an Hour " is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894. It was originally published in Vogue on December 6, 1894, as " The Dream of an Hour ". It was later reprinted in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895, as "The Story of an Hour". The title of the short story refers to the time elapsed between the moments ...

  9. A Very Short Story - Wikipedia

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    A Very Short Story. Ernest Hemingway 's relationship with Agnes von Kurowsky was the basis for this story. " A Very Short Story " is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published as a vignette, or chapter, in the 1924 Paris edition titled In Our Time, and later rewritten and added to Hemingway's first American short story ...

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