#short-stories

#short-stories

1. No Gods for Drowning by Hailey Piper is an engaging novel about a teenage girl's journey of self-discovery and resilience in the face of tragedy.
2. The story's themes of family, friendship, and identity are explored through powerful and poignant imagery and storytelling.

Robert Patrick, a wildly prolific playwright who rendered gay (and straight) life with caustic wit, an open heart and fizzy camp, and whose 1964 play, The Haunted Host, became a touchstone of early gay theater, died on April 23 at his home in Los Angeles.He was 85.The cause was atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, said Jason Jenn, a friend.

The No-Man's Land Between Art and Self: Seth Rogoff's The Kirschbaum Lectures
We look for ourselves in literature-for comfort or for guidance-but the page rarely provides a clean mirror.When we say we are lost in a book, we often mean that the glint of that reflection has lured us in through its crevices and pores, and once there we have lost track of the boundary between our lives and the world of the story.

Picnic, lightning is how Vladimir Nabokov's Humbert recounts his "very photogenic" mother's demise.The comma, her last breath before the lightning's revision.A writer invites the illuminating flash; our response speaks to our ability to survive, interpret and even transcend.From Emily Dickinson's nuanced "every clamor bright" to prose and poems about trick clocks, transcendent rooms, lockdown and landscape, join us at The Green Arcade as we explore the ways our new reality electrifies perception and memory.

Though it's one of Disney's catchiest melodies, "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" originates from one of the entertainment company's most shameful films, "Song of the South."Following a national reckoning prompted by the killing of George Floyd in 2020, Disneyland announced plans to re-imagine Splash Mountain, a popular ride that features imagery and themes from the racist 1946 film, ensuring the song's days in the Disney oeuvre were numbered.

CNET Money, launched a test using an internally designed AI engine to help editors create a set of basic explainers around financial services topics.We started small and published 77 short stories using the tool, about 1% of the total content published on our site during the same period.Editors generated the outlines for the stories first, then expanded, added to and edited the AI drafts before publishing."

This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, official judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guest George Saunders and panelists Paula Poundstone, Peter Grosz and Emmy Blotnick.Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.George Saunders in London Chris Jackson/Getty Images Who's Bill This Time The Long Island Liar; Biden Confidential; The Prince of Grievances Panel Questions A Board Game Gets A Lot Less Boring Bluff The Listener Our panelists read three stories about butt dials gone wrong, only one of which is true.

If your reading list is long and the piles of books on your nightstand never reduce, get ready for more of the same, as 2023 promises to be a year of stellar fiction.From masterful world-building to missing children, murder mystery and toxic masculinity, there is storytelling to suit any mood by some of the most exciting voices in literature today.

Inspired by two different idyllic locations in Sweden, Skargaarden presents two new teak wood outdoor furniture collections: Laknäs and Saltholm.Both offer the best of both worlds because they were designed with relaxation and celebration simultaneously in mind.Like all of Skargaarden's furniture, these pieces are a tribute to the Scandinavian summer, and an invitation to take advantage of that short but beautiful time.