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Mad Libs. Mad Libs is a word game created by Leonard Stern [1] [2] and Roger Price. [3] It consists of one player prompting others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story before reading aloud. The game is frequently played as a party game or as a pastime. It can be categorized as a phrasal template game.
The Princess in Black was a New York Times bestseller, and Kirkus Reviews named it one of the best books of 2014. [4] The Kirkus review said, "The gently ironic text will amuse readers (including adults reading the book aloud).
Shiloh and Other Stories is a 1982 collection of short stories written by American author Bobbie Ann Mason. The collection won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation award for fiction. The collection brought Mason her first critical acclaim. The short story alluded to in the collection's title, "Shiloh", revolves around a man named Leroy who lives in ...
The Skull: A Love Story; The Deaths: An Elegy: After being separated for many years after their parents' deaths, a woman and her brother meet again and visit the site where their father allegedly hacked their mother to death. The end of the story hints one might kill the other, how history might just repeats itself.
The Lottery. " The Lottery " is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [ a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
'A good story,' she wrote, 'is literal in the same sense a child's drawing is literal. ' " [19] In other words, O'Connor understood that her anagogical vision is a challenge to readers because they must not only understand the literal story but also associate the literal with their knowledge or experience. Consequently, "A Good Man Is Hard to ...
Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories is a collection of nine short stories by Canadian author, playwright, and journalist Drew Hayden Taylor published in 2016 by Douglas & McIntyre. [1] [2] Taylor, who is part Caucasian, part Ojibwe, [3] [4] explains in the acknowledgments section of the book that the origin of the project lies in several ...
Dracula's Guest. " Dracula's Guest " is a short story by Bram Stoker, first published in the short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). It is believed to have been intended as the first chapter for Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, but was deleted prior to publication as the original publishers felt it was superfluous to ...