He was just fooling around, showing off to the boys. I mean, he shouldn't have done nothing, but if she hadn't pulled the drawer open it wouldn't have happened ...' 'So you're suggesting it was an accident?' 'Er ... yeah.
Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stories, novels, and memoirs.
... saying. “Hold still. I want to get the right angle for this shot.” We get a great laugh out of this story, but I know the pain behind the humor. My cousin doesn't acknowledge it when she tells the story, but I can feel it in the facts ...
This timely study will interest critics of narrative and culture, as well as students wanting to extend post-Saussurean theories to poopular and canonical cultures, and to the dynamics of story-telling itself.
This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts.
Here are the highs, the lows, the joys, the agonies, and the stories of what it's like to be in a rock band, as told by front man and survivor, Tim Burgess. This edition contains a whole new chapter that takes the story up to 2013.
... Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs, ed. Todd Ruecker, Dawn Shepherd, Heidi Estrem, and Beth Brunk Chavez, 74–92. Logan: Utah State University Press. Hassel, Holly, and Joanne Baird Giordano. 2009. “Transfer Institutions ...
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Here are classics and relative unknowns, short vignettes and long genre fiction, tragic tales and humorous character sketches. Oates chose pieces that will inspire beginning and experienced writers alike.