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Author: Thomas S. Adam
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 143894456X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book has ficitional short tales. They are different from each other. These are stories that I have written these stories for my children, my grand children. I share my short stories with kids everywhere. I hope that kids and or parents who buy book and read it enjoy these stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Author: Tom Bailey
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780195395655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn Writing Short Stories, Second Edition, explores the art and craft of writing short fiction by bringing together nine original essays by professional writers and thirty-three examples of short fiction. The first section features original essays by well-known authors--including Francine Prose, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andre Dubus--that guide students through the process of writing. Focusing on the characteristics and craft of the short story and its writer, these essays take students from the workshopping process all the way through to the experience of working with agents and publishers. The second part of the text is an anthology of stories--many referred to in the essays--that give students dynamic examples of technique brought to life.
Author: Linda Jennings
Publisher: Tiger Tales
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781680102253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTom, the pig, doesn't like his curly tail and he goes to great lengths to straighten it -- with disasterous results. Tom, the pig doesn't like his short and curly tail. He wants to wag his tail like Sam the sheepdog, or swish his tail like Henry the horse. With the help of some mud, Tom works on getting his tail to straighten out. After a sleepless night Tom goes outside to sleep and luckily, the rain washes away the mud on his tail, making it soft and curly again!
Author: Tom Hanks
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1101946164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that the legendary Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. “Reading Tom Hanks's Uncommon Type is like finding out that Alice Munro is also the greatest actress of our time.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Dutch House A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories. They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!
Author: Tom Bissell
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 152474915X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the best-selling coauthor of The Disaster Artist and “one of America's best and most interesting writers" (Stephen King), a new collection of stories that range from laugh-out-loud funny to disturbingly dark—unflinching portraits of women and men struggling to bridge the gap between art and life A young and ingratiating assistant to a movie star makes a blunder that puts his boss and a major studio at grave risk. A long-married couple hires an escort for a threesome in order to rejuvenate their relationship. An assistant at a prestigious literary journal reconnects with a middle school frenemy and finds that his carefully constructed world of refinement cannot protect him from his past. A Bush administration lawyer wakes up on an abandoned airplane, trapped in a nightmare of his own making. In these and other stories, Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crises—writers, video-game developers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. With its surreal, poignant, and sometimes squirm-inducing stories, Creative Types is a brilliant new offering from one the most versatile and talented writers working in America today.
Author: Tom Franklin
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0061856843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Edgar Award winner, Tom Franklin’s Poachers collects ten stunning, bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River. Staking his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice, Tom Frankin’s lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching—a world most of us have never seen. In the chilling title novella, three wild boys confront a mythic game warden as mysterious and deadly as the river they haunt. And, as a weathered, hand-painted sign reads: “Jesus is not coming.” This terrain isn’t pretty, isn’t for the weak of heart, but in these deperate, lost people, Franklin somehow finds the moments of grace that make them what they so abundantly are: human. “While he may occasionally wax sentimental about life in the impoverished South, Franklin’s style is often as laconic and simply spoken as his characters’ dialogue, sometimes close to Hemingway, but more often akin to Denis Johnson or Raymond Carver in its resonant ordinariness.” —Publishers Weekly
Author: Tom Perrotta
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1466849118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story, Grade My Teacher, set at and around small-town Gifford High School, explores favorite themes of bestselling author Tom Perrotta's, who TIME magazine called the "Steinbeck of surburbia." The public and private self-images of a high school math teacher uncomfortably collide when she has a coffee date with a student who has posted negative comments about her on grademyteacher.com
Author: Tom Percival
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1471191311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA moving, powerful story that shines a light on those that feel invisible in our world - and shows us that we ALL belong - from the author of Ruby's Worry. The Invisible is the story of a young girl called Isabel and her family. They don't have much, but they have what they need to get by. Until one day, there isn't enough money to pay their rent and bills and they have to leave their home full of happy memories and move to the other side of the city. It is the story of a girl who goes on to make one of the hardest things anyone can ever make...a difference. And it is the story of those who are overlooked in our society - who are made to feel invisible - and why everyone has a place here. We all belong.
Author: James Thomas
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 1992-07-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0393308839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"These stories are not merely flashes in the pan; there's pay dirt here!" ―DeWitt Henry, editor of Ploughshares
Author: Ruben Bolling
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780740747373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCartoonist Ruben Bolling's oddball strip, Tom the Dancing Bug, makes waves on a weekly basis. Recognized the past two years by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) as Best Cartoon, Tom the Dancing Bug is consistently funny, pointed without being dogmatic, and takes on subjects that no one else does . . . an oasis of keen intelligence in the comics page, according to the 2003 AAN judges. Here are just a couple headlines from the quirky strip's News of the Times: o?= Computer Loses to Human Candy Land Champion: Despite progress made in developing a computer program that can defeat a human chess champion, computer scientists confess that they have been unable to launch a significant challenge to human supremacy in the game of Candy Land.o?= Scientists Discover Media Has Quantum Effect on Reality: A team of physicists discovers that an electron is in an uncertain state until the media report on it. For example, once an electron was measured and reported upon by Mary Hart on the Celebrity Corner segment of Entertainment Tonight, it instantly assumed its nature as a particle.Tom the Dancing Bug's client list is diverse, representing the breadth of contemporary journalism: alternative newspapers, such as Dallas Observer and the Village Voice; prestigious daily newspapers, including the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times; Salon.com, an acclaimed online magazine; and the New Yorker magazine.
