short story
短篇小说,短篇故事,短篇报道,小故事
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- : a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words.
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The latter will be a feature film called Dolly and is based on a short story written by Elizabeth Bear.
These books are accompanied by dazzling short story collections, heartbreaking debuts and more.
As the implanted microelectrodes silently recorded the brain cells’ electrical activity, the team asked the participants to listen to a short story.
There are many elements to consider when reading a short story, but perhaps the most important one is what kind of ending the author chooses.
She published a few short stories and poems and was an editorial assistant for Oxford University Press in Manhattan before her marriage, in 1948, to Jonathan Bishop, who became a literary scholar.
The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
Whatever the FBI says, the truthers will create alternative hypotheses that try to challenge the ‘official story.’
In its attempt to discredit the story, the JPO inadvertently confirmed that fact.
Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.
Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.