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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Recent Examples of short story
Osgood Perkins is back in his horror bag to bring the short story from Stephen King to the big screen, following twin brothers Bill and Hal, who find their father's old toy monkey in the attic, an event which leads to a series of gruesome deaths.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Entries should be short stories about a group of friends on a camping trip who get stranded in the wilderness and discover a mysterious set of footprints.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
When Basil shares with him one of his wacky short stories, Peter always finds something nice to say, no matter how trivial.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
That attention to nuance gets the film closer to the spirit of the novelist, poet and short story author than his previous screen adaptations — Alison Maclean’s Jesus’ Son and Claire Denis’ Stars at Noon.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Entries should be short stories about a group of friends on a camping trip who get stranded in the wilderness and discover a mysterious set of footprints.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
When Basil shares with him one of his wacky short stories, Peter always finds something nice to say, no matter how trivial.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
That attention to nuance gets the film closer to the spirit of the novelist, poet and short story author than his previous screen adaptations — Alison Maclean’s Jesus’ Son and Claire Denis’ Stars at Noon.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for short story
Noun
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Notably, there was zero mention of Baldoni or his company, Wayfarer Studios, which had brought on Sony to market and distribute their adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel about a woman caught up in an intertwining tale of new love and domestic abuse.—
Pamela McClintock,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Feb. 2025
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Icelandic helmer Baltasar Kormákur directed the first episode and was heavily involved in the series, which brings an historical tale of Harold, Earl of Wessex (Norton), and William, Duke of Normandy (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), to life.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2025
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This story was originally published February 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Feb. 2025
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This story was originally published February 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM.—
Steve Gorten and,
Miami Herald,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Additional books in the immensely popular series include A Court of Mist and Fury, A Court of Wings and Ruin, the novella A Court of Frost and Starlight and A Court of Silver Flames.—
Keisha Hatchett,
TVLine,
14 Feb. 2025
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The factual novella lacks the self-soothing aspects of the self-eulogizing fantasy, while telling the same tale, with Hemingway acting, by his frantic verbal participation, as its co-author, contributing to what is at once a parody and, in another way, the superior realization of his own book.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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This difference in perception can create friction with white women, who may frame these struggles through a lens of personal failings, a narrative that imposter syndrome encourages.—
Shari Dunn,
TIME,
25 Feb. 2025
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These narratives meant that Palestinians never gained the sort of global support for lasting change that the Germans and South Africans had enjoyed.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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