Blog posts tagged "short stories"

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Feb. 16, 2017 - 12:39 pm
Stories take time. Whether bingeing the newest season of your favorite TV show, listening to an audiobook or engrossed in the pages of a novel, stories are experienced in hours, days, months and occasionally years. But short stories are different. Short stories, to paraphrase Neil Gaiman, take us...
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Oct. 13, 2016 - 2:06 pm
Stephen King is one of the most commercially successful authors of all time, and yet he regularly and enthusiastically works in one of the least commercial genres: short fiction. As he puts it – somewhat self-effacingly – in his introduction to Everything’s Eventual, “I’ve continued to write short...
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Mar. 06, 2013 - 8:18 pm
When I was a little girl, I was afraid of everything. And I mean everything. It took years for me to sleep without a TV on, and even longer to see scary movies with my friends. Then something changed. The older I've gotten, the more fascinated I've become with concepts in the macabre. With the...