as in tale
a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel
her very first short story was accepted for publication in a local journal
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As far as a legacy goes, 1,700 short stories, books, essays, screenplays, graphic novels, and works of criticism and 10,000 stories left behind, to be told again and again by those who outlive you?
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Jason Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
The script is co-written by the filmmaker and Eli Kent, who together adapted a short story by Owen Marshall.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
The final line of the movie doesn't appear in the short story with the same title by Harlan Ellison.
—Worth Sparkman, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
The short story, written by Isaac Asimov, was initially published in 1941 and first appeared in this collection in 1969.
—Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024
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Jason Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
The script is co-written by the filmmaker and Eli Kent, who together adapted a short story by Owen Marshall.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
The final line of the movie doesn't appear in the short story with the same title by Harlan Ellison.
—Worth Sparkman, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
The short story, written by Isaac Asimov, was initially published in 1941 and first appeared in this collection in 1969.
—Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024
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But her tale is not just a story about the safety net in America.Naveen Rao, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Every breast cancer story is personal While the individual tales of each person with breast cancer share some of the same contours, the details and the story arcs can be vastly different.Andrea Kane, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
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This story has been updated to add new information.Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Editor's note: This story was updated with additional details and a chart.Courtenay Brown, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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The writer's new novella, available only in audio, is out now through Spotify Audiobooks Comments Like so many of us this year, romance novelist Ali Hazelwood couldn’t get enough of Luca Guadagnino’s tennis movie Challengers.Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
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Hyde is set in London, in a fictional world where the madman in Robert Louis Stevenson's influential Gothic horror novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde did not die, Negron said.David Bloom, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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The attacks highlighted that Kyiv has been able to strike even further into Russia while Moscow is unable to control the narrative of Ukraine's reach militarily.Peter Suciu, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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Unlocking the Truth explores a new narrative examining the motives of Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford University psychology professor who oversaw the experiment and gained worldwide recognition following its conclusion.Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024
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