Weird fiction

being the minority. Sherman Alexie went to Reardon High School for a better education than offered to him by the rez. He was the only Indian there besides the school mascot. Octavia Butler is one of the few African American women to write science fiction. Their stories, too, are very different from each other, but they have a few similarities. “Jesus Christ’s Half Brother Is Alive and Well on the Spokane Reservation” and “Bloodchild” are an interesting pair of fictional narratives to compare,…

The book “Making Sarah Cry” and the book “Counting by Sevens” both share the the theme of being different. Both stories are about people who are different from everyone else and are looked at but not understood. The major difference between the stories is “Counting by Sevens” is more in depth and goes further into showing how much more different Willow is by showing her reaction to a variety of actions and situations. While in “Making Sarah Cry” they only show the characters being different by…

Do you know who Clark Ashton Smith is? Smith is an American author who wrote many poems and short stories, mostly horror and weird fiction. One of his novels, The End of the Story, is one of his popular books. It was published in the 1930s and it is filled with short, suspenseful, horror stories. In this book, there are a lot of different aspects within his texts that really bring out his special writing style. Three of these aspects are vivid detail, unique perspectives, and diction. One…

Needful Things by Stephen King: Stephen King is one of my favorite authors, he lead me into the world of science fiction and short stories. I fell in love with Needful Things because it had such a different feel than any of his other works I had read. Needful Things is a metaphor for the consequences instant gratification has. Although the book ends with practically the whole town being decimated by a bomb, I feel as though I still learned a valuable lesson in that, there is nothing wrong with…

We were assigned to write a realistic fiction story which I loved from the beginning. I ended up writing about an abused girl who ran away from home, causing her to go through a strange series of events to find happiness, love, and everything cliche. The short story ended up being around ten…

To some people one person that loves them is not enough. They feel a need to have someone else to fill a void that they have inside of them. In Robert Coover’s story, “The Frog Prince” and in Richard Ford’s story, “How Was It To Be Dead?” they present the theme that you do not always need more than one person to show you compassion because the symbol of breaking a trust of one another and also the conflict of complicating something more than it needs to be. The symbol of breaking a trust can be…

Marysue Villarreal Harkins & Galluppi ENG 111-09 September 15, 2014 Being Banned Harper Lee is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Her full name is Nelle Harper Lee. She is the youngest daughter of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunnigham Finch Lee. Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama on April 28, 1926. She has total of 2 sisters and 1 brother. Although her brother died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in 1951. She grew up in Florida but eventually made it back to Monroeville County in the…

distinctive style made Hemingway a popular writer and his stories best sellers. In many of Hemingway’s stories it is clear that he is leaving out a lot of details about characters history. Hemingway wrote many successful short fictions works, but also novels, and non-fiction. Hemingway could not wait to join the military and be a part of the war. He incorporates this into some of his stories about war, soldiers, and returning home. In 1926 Hemingway published his first novel and in 1964 after…

will make your mind melt. Between off-kilter realities, confounding characters and intricate word labyrinths, 2016 is shaping up to be “The Year of Strange Fiction” in the…

Lockwood's descriptions we can guess his appearances and personality. A wealthy Gentleman who lives in the ancient manor of Wuthering Heights but that man has dark-skin and somehow gruff and rough personality. The settings are telling us that something weird has happened so this man became the owner, and yes! Readers know more details once the housekeeper 'Nelly' starts to narrate the story through flashbacks recorded in diary entries and events are there presented out by Nelly. A Mix of…