Download or read book The End is Where It Begins Winner of the Short Story Contest written by Sayani Bhattacharya and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2021-10-23 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhea’s life takes a defining turn after her parents are killed. With a ravaged heart, she vows to take revenge of her parents’ death. But upon reaching the bungalow, to her utter bewilderment, she finds Minal Tiwari already lying dead in a pool of blood, with a cleaver in her hand. Who kills Minal Tiwari? Does she kill herself or is it Rhea? Or can there be someone else behind all of it? Read this exciting tale which is filled with suspense and drama. It will certainly keep you guessing what happens next.
Download or read book The Morning Walk Winner of the Short Story Contest written by Souvik Sarkar and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2021-09-11 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For sixty-eight years old Mr Rao, the mornings were a breath of fresh air. In the company of his three friends who were at similar stages of their lives, Mr Rao relished his morning walk. Starting off with enjoying their filter coffee, they greeted Mrs D'Cruz on their way and chit-chatted with the Roy sisters in the Bugle Rock Park. Their walk ended with them, savoring lip-smacking idlis at the Brahmins coffee bar. This daily ritual became an indispensible part of Mr Rao’s life. But, what happened when a sudden tragedy disrupted his pleasant routine? Will the fear of uncertainty strip Mr Rao off the most cherished event of his day– the morning walk?
Download or read book The Rebel Winner of the Short Story Contest written by Firoz Raza Khan and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2021-09-18 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mostafa got arrested when he landed in Chicago. There were two reasons for the unexpected occurrence – one, he was a Muslim and the other, because he was a Palestinian. He knew he was trapped in a black hole from where it was impossible to come out. No matter how innocent he was, the tag of a terrorist followed him wherever he went. Will he be able to come out of this chaos alive? Will he be able to meet his family again? Read this edgy suspense thriller “The Rebel” to know more about Mostafa’s adventurous journey.
Download or read book The Loop of Life Winner of the Short Story Contest written by Mazin Iqbal and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2021-12-18 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boe Calliper is a man who is perfectly content with the monotony of his life. He goes about his routine happily every day until he experiences a series of strange occurrences. A screaming billboard, a dancing old man, and a disembodied voice turn his world upside down. He ends up questioning his sanity. What is the reason behind these eccentric events? Will Boe be able to escape this bizarre loop? Witty charming and emotionally powerful, The Loop of Life is a story that will make you laugh, cry and most importantly, reflect on your existence.
Download or read book Anokhi Winner of the Short Story Contest written by Luvv Sanwal and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anokhi escaped on a horrific night, with tons of bruises and cuts on her body. Some parts of her face and hands were severely burnt. But, she stayed strong and determined. She walked till she reached the main road but fell unconscious just when she saw an approaching truck. What happened to her that horrible night? Why was Anokhi in such a bad shape? Read this heart wrenching story of a strong independent girl and courageous girl who risks her life to stand up against injustice.
Download or read book The BBC National Short Story Award 2021 written by Lucy Caldwell and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of teenage boys take turns assessing each other’s changing bodies before a Friday night disco… A grieving woman strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow traveller on a night train to Kiev… An unusually well-informed naturalist is eyed with suspicion by his comrades on a forest exhibition with a higher purpose… The stories shortlisted for the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University take place in liminal spaces – their characters find themselves in transit, travelling along flight paths, train lines and roads, or in moments where new opportunities or directions suddenly seem possible. From the reflections of a new mother flying home after a funeral, to an ailing son’s reluctance to return to the village of his childhood, these stories celebrate small kindnesses in times of turbulence, and demonstrate a connection between one another that we might sometimes take for granted. The BBC NSSA is one of the most prestigious prizes for a single short story, with the winning author receiving £15,000, and four further shortlisted authors £600 each. James Runcie is joined on the judging panel by a group of acclaimed writers and critics including: Booker Prize shortlisted novelist Fiona Mozley; award winning writer, poet and winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize, Derek Owusu; multi-award winning Irish novelist and short story writer, Donal Ryan; and returning judge, Di Speirs, Books Editor at BBC Radio.
Download or read book Writing Vivid Dialogue written by Rayne Hall and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to write fast-paced, exciting, sizzling dialogue? This book reveals professional dialogue technique to characterise the speaker, carry the plot forward and entertain your readers. This is not a beginner's guide. It assumes that you have mastered the basics of fiction writing, and don't need an explanation of what dialogue is and why it matters for your story. But your dialogue isn't yet as strong as your story deserves. Perhaps it drags, perhaps the characters all sound the same, and perhaps it lacks tension, wit or sparkle. This book offers you a toolbox filled with techniques. These are not 'rules' every writer must follow, but tricks you can try. Pick, mix and match them to suit your characters and your story. Some of these tools work for all kinds of dialogue, others solve specific problems-how to create male and female voices, how to present foreign languages and accents, how to present historical dialogue and flirtatious banter, how to write dialogue for alpha characters, for children and for liars. If you like you can use this book as an advanced dialogue writing course, working your way through each chapter, doing the exercises in the chapter and the assignments at the end of each chapter. Or you can simply read the whole book to get a feel for what's in it, then choose the techniques you want to study and apply for the chapter you want to write or revise. (British English grammar and spelling.)
Download or read book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick written by Chris Van Allsburg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1984, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick has stimulated the minds of readers of all ages and backgrounds. Now the original fourteen drawings are available in a large portfolio edition of loose sheets. In addition, a newly discovered fifteenth drawing, titled The Youngest Magician, has been added, as well as an updated introduction by the author. The puzzles of these mysterious drawings will be even more provocative because of the larger size and the exceptional printing quality. For the first time, the drawings can be shared with groups or displayed singly. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 1984.
Download or read book Black Pulp written by Brooks E. Hefner and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice In recent years, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Marvel’s Black Panther, and HBO’s Watchmen have been lauded for the innovative ways they repurpose genre conventions to criticize white supremacy, celebrate Black resistance, and imagine a more racially just world—important progressive messages widely spread precisely because they are packaged in popular genres. But it turns out, such generic retooling for antiracist purposes is nothing new. As Brooks E. Hefner’s Black Pulp shows, this tradition of antiracist genre revision begins even earlier than recent studies of Black superhero comics of the 1960s have revealed. Hefner traces it back to a phenomenon that began in the 1920s, to serialized (and sometimes syndicated) genre stories written by Black authors in Black newspapers with large circulations among middle- and working-class Black readers. From the pages of the Pittsburgh Courier and the Baltimore Afro-American, Hefner recovers a rich archive of African American genre fiction from the 1920s through the mid-1950s—spanning everything from romance, hero-adventure, and crime stories to westerns and science fiction. Reading these stories, Hefner explores how their authors deployed, critiqued, and reassembled genre formulas—and the pleasures they offer to readers—in the service of racial justice: to criticize Jim Crow segregation, racial capitalism, and the sexual exploitation of Black women; to imagine successful interracial romance and collective sociopolitical progress; and to cheer Black agency, even retributive violence in the face of white supremacy. These popular stories differ significantly from contemporaneous, now-canonized African American protest novels that tend to represent Jim Crow America as a deterministic machine and its Black inhabitants as doomed victims. Widely consumed but since forgotten, these genre stories—and Hefner’s incisive analysis of them—offer a more vibrant understanding of African American literary history.
Download or read book After the Vote Was Won written by Katherine H. Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because scholars have traditionally examined the efforts of American suffragists only in relation to electoral politics, the history books have largely missed the real story of what these women achieved far outside the realm of voting reform. Though Stanton, Anthony, and Mott are the best known figures of the woman's suffrage movement, all were dead more than a decade before women actually achieved the vote. Women like Alice Paul, Louisine Havemeyer, and Mary Church Terrell carried on their work, putting their campaign experiences to work long after the 19th Amendment was ratified. This book tells the story of how these women made an indelible mark on American history in fields ranging from education to art, science, publishing, and social activism.
Download or read book Physical Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Last Call written by Laura Pedersen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having descended from a long line of indomitable, good-humored Scots, Hayden MacBride sees no reason to take his own death lying down. In fact, he now spends his days crashing funerals for the free food and insight into the Great Beyond. Then he meets Rosamond, a nun playing hooky from the Holy Orders. Hayden is smitten the instant her heavy silver cross smacks him in the face when she leaps up to do the wave at a ball game. Luckily, Rosamond has picked the right person to teach her how to live . . . and to love–because nobody does both better than Hayden MacBride. However, Rosamond’s years in the convent have not prepared her for the oddball characters of Hayden’s world. There’s his ever-fretful, vigilant daughter, Diana, the “Dutchess o’ the Sidelong Glance”; his sweet grandson Joey, struggling to break free of his mother’s overprotective embrace; Hayden’s bagpipe-blowing cronies; the Greyfriars Gang; neighbor Bobbie Anne, a “working girl” full of good advice and tender mercies; and Hank, the sexy architect contemplating the priesthood–a big mistake in Hayden’s book. For Hayden thinks that Hank should be married to his daughter and raising Joey. And he has an elaborate plan to make Hank see things his way. . . . In an uproariously funny novel of love, laughter, and one man’s final call at the riotous watering hole called life, Laura Pedersen proves that miracles are all around us–when we open our eyes and our hearts to embrace them.
Download or read book Story World and Photodramatist written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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