Story of the Year

A 43-year-old woman lies about her age and falls for a younger man but then breaks up with him to avoid telling him the truth and now twenty years later they are reunited and their romance rekindles, but he still doesn’t know her true age. STORY COMMENTS SALAD DAYS presents as a romantic comedy with a high-concept premise. The story has an appealing hook with the idea of a 43-year-old woman who lies about her age. She pretends to be 30 years old and then fall for an even younger man. The…

cannot be refuted. In these mountains many stories and superstitions grow. These stories are passed down and recorded. What remains a mystery is whether these stories are rooted in fact or fiction. Ghost stories range in topic from people, places, houses, and more and the superstitions include ghosts and how people live their lives and beyond. Humans as a group are always intrigued by that which they cannot explain with the roots of folklore and ghost stories going farther back than can be…

Everytime I get in trouble I have to hear the story of how I almost killed my mom after having me, I absolutely hate hearing this story. Originally I was supposed to be named after my dad whose name Is Darrell Jones, my name was going to be…

Everyone loves to hear a great story every once in a while. Sometimes when telling one story people tend to tell others stories to help aid the first one. This technique is called a frame story. Charles Chesnutt uses this technique in “The Goophered Grapevine” published in August 1887. Mr. Chesnutt was a black writer who wrote stories in which he would reverse traditional roles, using black characters where prominent white characters would normally be present. Chesnutt “had great hopes for the…

Elvis Presley, the King of Rock, died on August 16, 1977. That was 38 years ago, but did Elvis really die? It has always been rumored that Elvis was actually still alive, and he faked his death in order to get away from the life he was living as a rock and roll superstar. He just wanted to live a normal life as an “unknown.” In October of 2015 a story was shared that would justify that theory. An 80 year old homeless man was found deceased under an overpass. No one really knew the man’s name,…

The author make a story his or her own by adding things that define the way he writes these kinds of stories, like on the sory gift of the magi, the way he wrote this story is with love and sarcasm. He made that story his with the way he wrote it, the things that author uses. For example in the story after twenty years by O. Henry, he uses a style of suspense because at the end on after 20 year it ends with him getting caught and you didn't know what was going to happen next until you read.…

The Narrator finally acknowledges and grasp what Sonny was feeling all of those years. The Narrator’s fall from grace come originates from, is when he breaks the vow he made to his mother and doesn’t keep watch over Sonny, and make sure he is alright. Instead he denounces Sonny’s dreams and persuades him to stay in a community that eventually leads to his downfall and a life of drugs. Stone states in the text “Sonny’s fall from grace, in Christian terms.” Which that statement means, Sonny’s has…

Stephen King is the author of novels and short stories with creepy settings admits that he even fears bugs to add to the list of things that freaks him out. One of his earlier short stories happening 1976, several women at New Sharon Teachers' College fall victim to a “Jack the Ripper” style character with a mysterious fog that weighs heavy over the campus. King, the narrator, also a student, leads us on a twisted tale of a foggy New England town to search who committed the horrifying acts.…

one. This is additionally accurate for those telling a true story. Many vital parts of the story line are left out because the director saw them not important enough to make the cut in the allotted time. “12 years a slave,” was an intense book and while the movie did a decent job following its intensity, it lacked many moments told in his story and like all movies, some of the details were changed…

There have always been stories about animals that bring up children. One of the most famous is the story of Romulus and Remus; the twin boys who were raised by a wolf. When the brothers grew up they founded the city of Rome. While this is a legend, there are many modern stories about children being raised by wolves, which are believed by many people. In an Indian jungle in 1867 a boy was found by some hunters. They said he was living with wolves – he was about six years old. He was named Dina…