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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While still at the Voice, Indiana published two collections of short stories, 1987’s Scar Tissue and Other Stories and 1988’s White Trash Boulevard.
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News Desk, Artforum, 24 Oct. 2024
Loosely based on Daphne du Maurier's 1952 short story of the same name, this Hitchcock classic sees the birds of a coastal California community launch a massive, coordinated, and unexplained assault against the local townspeople.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Written and directed by Perkins and produced by James Wan, The Monkey is based on a 1980 short story of the same name by Stephen King.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Han, 53, began her career with a group of poems in a South Korean magazine, before making her prose debut in 1995 with a short story collection.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024
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News Desk, Artforum, 24 Oct. 2024
Loosely based on Daphne du Maurier's 1952 short story of the same name, this Hitchcock classic sees the birds of a coastal California community launch a massive, coordinated, and unexplained assault against the local townspeople.
—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Written and directed by Perkins and produced by James Wan, The Monkey is based on a 1980 short story of the same name by Stephen King.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Han, 53, began her career with a group of poems in a South Korean magazine, before making her prose debut in 1995 with a short story collection.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 10 Oct. 2024
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Co-created by Oscar nominee Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, Landman is set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas and is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs.Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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The choice is clear: adapt holistically or risk becoming another cautionary tale.Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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This story originally published on businessden.com.Max Scheinblum, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
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Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
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Watch on Deadline Along with two Art of Emily the Strange volumes, there are four novels published by HarperCollins, four graphic novellas published by Chronicle Books, and a 27-issue Emily the Strange comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics, which was a New York Times Bestseller.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
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Adapted from Barker's novella The Hellbound Heart, Hellraiser revolves around a mysterious puzzle box known as the Lament Configuration.Katie Rife, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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The Democratic-leaning Latino groups pushed back on that narrative, citing their own polling.Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Parker recorded interviews with 12 British men and women who had been convicted of murder, then transcribed and edited their words to create a series of extraordinary first-person narratives.The Week US, theweek, 12 Nov. 2024
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