Short stories

In the short story going places, A.R Barton highlights what can go wrong when a teenager fantasizes and dreams excessively. Life without dreams is dry but life that is divorced from reality is equally harmful, bordering on in the insanity and inability to differentiate between the real world and the one which is imaginary. The protagonist in the story is a day dreamer who aspires to be a very successful person, with lots of money beside her. Only few months are left in her schooling and she…

The Unbearable Mistake That one mistake you make without thinking fully, can put you in a situation you can't get out of. Tom Godwin’s short story “The Cold Equations” is about a young girl Marilyn who makes a mistake and get onto a EDS to see her brother. Later on she finds out it was wrong and a mistake to get aboard then has no choice but to take her life to save multiple other people. Marilyn’s character reveals that it is good to learn from mistakes, but pride is important part of learning…

cancer, it can change your life physically and mentally. It changes how you look at life now knowing that one day, you will no longer walk on the Earth, unless there was a cure. In the short story, Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket, Tom had many priorities in which changed at the end. In the beginning of the story, Tom has to make a decision on whether to go to the movies with his wife or stay at home and work on his writing. He already has decided that he was not going to the movies which makes…

There are many faces to a person; you never know which one they will show. In the short story “White Sands” by Geoff Dyer. Jessica and her husband fear their lives not knowing what would happen ahead in their journey. The actions they took upset me. I felt that they shouldn’t have feared a man who asked upon a simple request. The ending left me with empathy for the man. Imagine if it was you. Everyone deserves a better chance at life. In my opinion traveling can be dangerous. No matter where…

The Flowers “And the summer was over.” Quoted in the short story “The Flowers”, written by Alice Walker. Myop’s summer has just ended. Ten year old girl loses her sweet innocence. Just by accidentally wondering upon something no child would want to witness. Myop is a young girl full of life, untroubled, and comfortable with her surroundings. “She was ten, and nothing existed for her but her song, the stick in her dark brown hand, and the tat-de-ta-ta-ta of accompaniment.” She and her parents…

In the short story, “Thank You, Ma’am by Langston Hughes,” Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is a large and kind old woman. In the story, Roger, a young fourteen year old boy, tries to take Mrs. Jones purse. After snatching her purse, he falls to the ground where she picks him up and asks him why he is so dirty. After making him pick up her pocketbook, she takes him to her home. There, she makes him wash his face and eat a good meal. While making his meal, she asks Roger why he tried to steal…

Heker’s short story “The Stolen Party,” the protagonist Rosaura goes to a rich peoples’ party believing she is Luciana’s friend, but is only seen as the maid’s daughter. Her judgement is clouded by her naivety and innocence, where she must come to realization sooner or later. Through Rosaura, the writer clarifies the message that when someone is blinded by confidence and naivety, they can’t see the obvious balance between social class: how one is judged by race and wealth. When the story begins,…

Emily avoided everyone and anyone. Rule never matter and were never obliged by. Seemingly the story will give you an image of how in the early years of the 1900’s a now fat white woman is stuck in time. Ms. Emily live is a house that is rid of junk, history, hatred and odors lingering all through the city, and years to decades of build up everywhere. Story “A Rose for Emily” was the best short story because the setting was in an old small southern town, perhaps trying to remain relevant with…

Two Roads Diverge Losing a baby is always a tragedy for a couple and in most instances, the couple eventually loses their connection to one another. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story “A Temporary Matter” this is exactly what happens but with a twist. A secret game is presented by the wife, Shoba, to her husband, Shukumar, to tell each other their biggest secrets. To readers, Shoba appears to want to reconnect with her husband after months of disconnection after their baby died, but again things…

Have you read or heard of the two short stories that are called The Tell a Tale Heart or the Short story that is called called There Will Come Soft Rains. They are both short stories written by authors with different writing styles that are quite unique. Both stories were very different written by very different authors The Tell a Tale Heart was written by the author Edgar Allan Poe. The other story’s author that wrote the story There Will Come Soft Rains was named Ray Bradbury. The Authors…