Shorts

Caw! "Caw," said the crow. The girl let go of the string. Her balloon soared into the sky. She bawled. Down came the black bird and pecked out her eyes. She fell. Her stolen eyes a birthday treat. # "High trolollie lollie lol, High trolollie lee, Happy day, old Carrion, Happy day to me. Caw, caw, caaaaw!" Chasm John Sebastian crept closer. The Chasm called to him, opening its arms. Emptiness greyed his cheeks. His face numbed. And his footing, once firm and sure,…

When Sedaris finally finds himself taking his Mother’s advice to check himself, the one thing that distracts him from this self-reflection is the television. For example, when he says “here is a boy sitting on a bed, his mouth smeared with chocolate. He's a human being, but also he's a pig, surrounded by trash and gorging himself so that others may be denied. Were this the only image in the world, you'd be forced to give it your full attention, but fortunately there were others. This stagecoach,…

A breeze fluttered Perceval’s hair as he gazed in desolation at the closed drawbridge on the other side of the moat. What was he to do now? He needed that Grail to heal not only the Fisher King, but also his ill mother. Perceval pulled on the reins of his horse and brought it about-face towards the ominous forest behind him. He saw no point in raving like a madman at the deserted castle, and so, the only option Perceval saw left was to venture into the woods to look for someone who could tell…

Jax stood in front of the metal tube that now contained the woman he now knew he loved. She was dead, well, not truly dead, she was cryogenically frozen. They had pumped her bloodstream full of chemicals and dropped her temperature down to below negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit. They would wait until they had some way to save her life. Jax only hoped that they hadn't been too late and there was no way to save her. Probabilities were high that she would never be saved. Tears had dried up long ago,…

As gunshots fired Salva saw a soldier walking towards the direction of his home,as Salva watched in horror his vision turned red as he charged out of the bush. He grabbed a rock and smashed the soldier in the head full force killing him. His vision turned normal and he started shaking, he realized he just killed a man, but he rushed towards his house to help his family so he grabbed the soldierś knife and started running. As he ran he realized how what happened worked. Heś a smart boy when he is…

A short story is brief but has to contain meaningful story to make readers interested. Even if a story has mass of ideas or has a good and long structures, people will not focus on reading and start quitting reading if it is too complicated. Also, a story affects totality. Totality can define unity. So, a short story unifies ideas by holding each person’s single emotion. Edgar Allan Poe, who made the theory of short story, insists a short story is all about “brevity and the necessary coherence…

Boom! (Frame 10) It’s only the beginning of the short story, “The Shabbat”. The Shabbat is set up like a cartoon you would read in a magazine or a newspaper. It has not only words but pictures as well to help the author tell the story and put the point across for the readers. This would be considered the author’s voice. Marjane Satrapi whom is the talented author for, “The Shabbat”, choose this as her style for this particular short story. While this short story is based on real events that…

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County play versus the short story had many contrasts. Yet, there were characteristics that differed between the two media forms. The setting, theme, plot, characters, and conflict are each a bit different between the forms of the highly-recognized story. The setting of two stories contrast in a couple of ways. To begin with, the play opens right in the old west. The short story, on the contrary, begins at Angel’s Mining Camp. The time period between…

elements that make them “short stories.” In Marie de France’s Breton lay (or poetic narrative), “Eliduc,” a knight named Eliduc has his fidelity challenged by a princess that he meets in his journey away from his wife. Though this piece of literature was originally written as a mere poem, it possesses some elements that are common to modern day fictional narratives. Though this Breton lay lacks some of the elements usually present in modern fictional narratives, it still possesses short story…

Short formats such as Anne Carson’s “Short Talks” have multiple creative advantages and keep attention, but the poems also tend to be too short to form a clear thesis if any and makes it hard to create a theme for each of her poems. Advantages such as the retention of attention, but it can also give relevance to her piece by adding references to popular subjects within the era in which the poems were written. Carson’s poems also cause disadvantages for her by being too vague or for the inability…