The Shell Collector

The Shell Collector
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439190054

In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of their respective landscapes.

The Art of the Short Fiction Film

The Art of the Short Fiction Film
Author: Richard Raskin
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476616124

This work is the first of its kind to single out individual short fiction films for comprehensive presentation and close study. Two Men and a Wardrobe (Roman Polanski, Poland, 1958, 15 min.), Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, USA, 1986, 6 min.), Sunday (John Lawlor, Ireland, 1988, 8 min.), Cat's Cradle (Liz Hughes, Australia, 1991, 12 min.), Eating Out (Pal Sletaune, Norway, 1993, 7 min.), Come (Marianne Olsen Ulrichsen, Norway, 1995, 4.5 min.), Wind (Marcell Ivanyi, Hungary, 1996, 6 min.), Possum (Brad McGann, New Zealand, 1997, 14 min.), and The War Is Over (Nina Mimica, Italy, 1997, 7 min.) are the nine short fiction films studied. The films represent a broad range of storytelling approaches and a number of very different film cultures. Each film has a chapter of its own, including a shot-by-shot reproduction of the film with a still from every shot. In most cases, an interview with the director and an original screenplay and storyboard is also included. The book also describes a new conceptual model, derived from the films studied in the work, which can be used both for analyzing the ways in which a short fiction film tells its story and as a set of guidelines for student filmmakers writing their own screenplays. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

100 Days of Sunlight

100 Days of Sunlight
Author: Abbie Emmons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2019-08-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9781733973328

When 16-year-old poetry blogger Tessa Dickinson is involved in a car accident and loses her eyesight for 100 days, she feels like her whole world has been turned upside-down. Terrified that her vision might never return, Tessa feels like she has nothing left to be happy about. But when her grandparents place an ad in the local newspaper looking for a typist to help Tessa continue writing and blogging, an unlikely answer knocks at their door: Weston Ludovico, a boy her age with bright eyes, an optimistic smile...and no legs. Knowing how angry and afraid Tessa is feeling, Weston thinks he can help her. But he has one condition -- no one can tell Tessa about his disability. And because she can't see him, she treats him with contempt: screaming at him to get out of her house and never come back. But for Weston, it's the most amazing feeling: to be treated like a normal person, not just a sob story. So he comes back. Again and again and again. Tessa spurns Weston's "obnoxious optimism", convinced that he has no idea what she's going through. But Weston knows exactly how she feels and reaches into her darkness to show her that there is more than one way to experience the world. As Tessa grows closer to Weston, she finds it harder and harder to imagine life without him -- and Weston can't imagine life without her. But he still hasn't told her the truth, and when Tessa's sight returns he'll have to make the hardest decision of his life: vanish from Tessa's world...or overcome his fear of being seen. 100 Days of Sunlight is a poignant and heartfelt novel by author Abbie Emmons. If you like sweet contemporary romance and strong family themes then you'll love this touching story of hope, healing, and getting back up when life knocks you down.

Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories

Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
Author: Joan Silber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2005-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393070727

Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In "My Shape", a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes a mesmerizing narrative of missionaries in China. In the final story, Giles, born to a priesthood family, leans toward Buddhism after a grievous loss, and in time falls in love with the dancer of the first story. So deft and subtle is Joan Silber with these various perspectives that we come full circle surprised and enchanted by her myriad worlds. National Book Award finalist. Reading group guide included.

50 Short Stories

50 Short Stories
Author: Martin Lundqvist
Publisher: Martin Lundqvist
Total Pages: 296
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This anthology consists of fifty stories, which are separated into four series as well as independent stories. The serialised short stories are: The Dating Mishaps of the Luckless Lawyer (humour, 8 stories), which follows the successful lawyer Geoffrey, as he goes on a series of absurd dates. Will Geoffrey end the vicious cycle by confronting the author? The Peculiar Quests of Australia's Greatest Spy (Espionage/ humour. 13 stories) is a collection of stories about Pond, Jared Pond, who is the goofy and failure-ridden Australian version of James Bond. Jared travels the world and keep failing while carrying out frivolous missions for the Australian Prime Minister Scurry Morrissette. Will Jared reach his goal of becoming the greatest agent Australia has ever seen? The Marvellous Adventures of the Quirky Space Chef (Juvenile/Young Adult Science Fantasy. 6 stories) follows the chef Diah Lubis as she travels through time and space to master the best dishes in the world for Princess Irulan Ramahandran. However, time travel has consequences that alter the present. Will Diah become the best space chef on the Europa Moon? Fiona's Dream Adventures (Juvenile fiction/ time travel. 8 stories.) follows the dreamy girl Fiona, who experiences vivid dreams where she meets historical persons and visit fantasy kingdoms. Will Fiona's dreams teach her about life? Miscellaneous Stories (All genres. 15 stories.) These Stories are not serialised, and they can be about anything between heaven and earth. The serialised stories are also available as their own books, in a magazine format with pictures. Please search for these titles if you are interested.

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1965-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466829036

Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and morality. The stories encompass the comic and the tragic, the beautiful and the grotesque; each carries her highly individual stamp and could have been written by no one else.

The Best American Short Stories 2014

The Best American Short Stories 2014
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547819226

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Short Stories

Short Stories
Author: Bob Avis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1499071892

This is a book of short stories all originally written by Bob Avis

Utta Drivel Short Stories

Utta Drivel Short Stories
Author: Alan Pinkett
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2019-04-05
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0244471533

Utta Drivel Short Stories is a collection of comic short stories read out at Creative Writing evening classes to much laughter. They cover a wide range of subjects. From a neolithic sex strike, to the ancient Egyptians Lotatotty & Obsequiops, to philosophers meeting at the Fill the Greek, the Parthenon canteen. From an abattoir wedding, to the first Russian to laugh in 200 years, to the Knights of the Round Hovel. There are longer short stories about the fun to be had working in the Falkland Islands & Hong Kong. Other short stories tell of rocky horror in Transylvania, of banned fox hunts switching to hunting smokers & sheep taking over Wales. In a different vein, staff in a St Trinians-type school hold an emergency meeting & when a man's private parts suddenly drop off, he considers having a vagina fitted by a quick-fit fanny fitter. And there is a pirate treasure story with Midshipman BraceYourself and a science fiction one that features Startifartlast, a mystic Chinese Constipate.