Short Stories For People With Short Attention Spans
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Short Stories For People With Short Attention Spans
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Author : Justin Romine
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2006-12-01
Short Stories For People With Short Attention Spans written by Justin Romine and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-01 with Fiction categories.
Short Stories for People with Short Attention Spans is a collection about interesting people in curious circumstances. Little thought about, but everyday characteristics and situations bring the reader to question decision making and to second guess lifeas lessons. Do things happen for a reason, or is life just unorganized chaos? In aThe Hunting Cap, a the reader actually penetrates the mind of a down-on-her-luck prostitute in an exercise of stream-of-consciousness at its best. In other stories, the author explores love, luck, lust, and missed opportunities. These stories are easily read but still powerful enough to evoke questions from anyone who reads them. Short Stories for People with Short Attention Spans proves that it doesnat take a novel to have poignant ideas and well-written characters.
Stories For Short Attention Spans
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Author : Ann Loewen
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2015-02-26
Stories For Short Attention Spans written by Ann Loewen and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-26 with Fiction categories.
I AM DEEPLY, REMORSELESSLY, UNSENTIMENTAL. Passionate, provocative, perceptive, warm, romantic (more likely Romantic), sensual, all these, but not a sentimental bone in my body. I’ll take unhappy endings, misconstrued meanings, novels without punctuation or compromise over heart-warming any day. In this collection of seventeen short stories the reader is treated to a cross-section of humanity and its ongoing struggle to overcome loneliness and misunderstanding. Whether a grieving widower questioning his wife’s last words, an art thief fleeing with her guilty haul, a family doctor doubting her clinical decisions or a horse pining for his herd, the characters seek connection in the midst of their isolation. Arranged in ascending order of length so as to entice the reader to lose themselves in the story, Stories for Short Attention Spans opens the window on the essence of hope.
Zombie Stories For People With Short Attention Spans
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Author : Shaun Phelps
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-01-26
Zombie Stories For People With Short Attention Spans written by Shaun Phelps and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-26 with Fiction categories.
A collection of short, disgusting, and mentally disturbed zombie stories for the internet age. Concise, bittersweet, and stomach-churning. "This collection of disgusting, horrifying, and psychological thriller-based zombie stories is the result of a challenge. One night Kyle Clements and I decided we should write a novella. We came up with the idea of writing stories based on a weekly challenge. Each week we would send each other a single word, for better or worse. Regardless the word we had to write at least 1,000 words about the topic. The stories that came out of the challenge are the most terrifying, depraved, sincere, and utterly unreadable works we could have hoped for. The idea was further based on Edgar Allen Poe's recommendation that a short story should be read within a single sitting. Given society's recent changes in attention span we realized 1,000 words in a single sitting would be the best most people could accomplish. When I introduced the idea to my mother she was excited, until she read the first story. Then she said 'I liked your last work better...' When I sent the novella to our beta readers their responses were typically a mix between, 'This is really great' and 'I couldn't finish this story, it was just too disgusting.' In the end, I think we adequately accomplished our goal. A challenging read that is both interesting and disgusting at once. It is our hope that you will both enjoy this book and also hate it; yet not demand a refund."
Uncanny Collateral
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Author : Brian McClellan
language : en
Publisher: Brian McClellan
Release Date : 2019-04-02
Uncanny Collateral written by Brian McClellan and has been published by Brian McClellan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Fiction categories.
Alek Fitz is a reaper, a collection agent who works for the supernatural elements of the world, tracking down debtors and solving problems for clients as diverse as the Lords of Hell, vampires, Haitian loa, and goblins. He’s even worked for the Tooth Fairy on occasion. Based out of Cleveland, Ohio, Alek is the best in the game. As a literal slave to his job, he doesn’t have a choice. When Death comes looking for someone to track down a thief, Alek is flung into a mess of vengeful undead, supernatural bureaucracy, and a fledgling imp war. As the consequences of failure become dire, he has few leads, and the clock is ticking. Only with the help of his friend Maggie—an ancient djinn with a complex past—can he hope to recover the stolen property, save the world, and just maybe wring a favor out of the Great Constant himself. It’s a hell of a job, but somebody’s got to do it . . .
Hard Laughter
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Author : Anne Lamott
language : en
Publisher: Viking
Release Date : 1980
Hard Laughter written by Anne Lamott and has been published by Viking this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Brain categories.
Anne Lamott's poignant first novel, reissued in an attractive new edition. Writer (and sometime housecleaner) Jennifer is twenty-three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel, which is made dramatic not so much by Wallace's illness as by the emotional wake it sweeps under Jen and her brothers, self-contained Ben and feckless, lovable Randy. With characteristic affection and accuracy, Lamott sketches this offbeat family and their nearest and dearest as they draw ever closer in the intimacy Jen prizes "among the other estimable things: good music, good hard laughter, good sex, good industry, and good books."
New Irish Short Stories
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-03-17
New Irish Short Stories written by Various and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-17 with Literary Collections categories.
Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Featuring, among many others, William Trevor and Roddy Doyle, Rebecca Miller and Richard Ford, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Colm Toibin, it shows the short story to be a vibrant, thriving form and one that should continue to be celebrated and encouraged. This collection follows the two acclaimed editions David Marcus edited for Faber in 2004-5 and 2006-7.
What Is Your One Sentence
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Author : Mimi Goss
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-04-03
What Is Your One Sentence written by Mimi Goss and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-03 with Business & Economics categories.
Your "one sentence" is that irreducible part of your message that you want your audience to remember. A good sentence stops people in their tracks. It surprises them. It makes them think. And in today's age of information overload and short attention spans, getting your point across is more important and more difficult than ever. What Is Your One Sentence? will help you be a better communicator-fast. Mimi Goss teaches her unique One Sentence Method, which shows you how to distill your message into one sentence that captures your listeners' attention, moves your ideas forward, focuses the problem, and helps you achieve your goals. You'll learn to: Use the one sentence approach to tackle complex messages Take five simple steps to find one sentence that launches a dialogue Identify the basics of a memorable one sentence Speak in an authentic voice Whether you're teaching kindergartners, pleading for your life, or presenting the budget to Congress, What Is Your One Sentence? provides exercises and examples, looks at the psychology of communication, and takes you through a step-by-step process to find your core message and craft that one memorable sentence to hook listeners and keep them engaged.
Short Stories For The Short Attention Span Or Otherwise Involved
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Author : Henry M. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Short Stories For The Short Attention Span Or Otherwise Involved written by Henry M. Schmidt and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
The Mars Room
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Author : Rachel Kushner
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2019-05-07
The Mars Room written by Rachel Kushner and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Fiction categories.
TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).
The Five Minute Iliad Other Instant Classics
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Author : Greg Nagan
language : en
Publisher: Gallery Books
Release Date : 2000-08-28
The Five Minute Iliad Other Instant Classics written by Greg Nagan and has been published by Gallery Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-28 with Humor categories.
Was Homer really blind, or was that just his shtick? Was Dante a righty or a lefty? Why aren't there any pictures of Jane Austen in a bikini? What made Oscar so Wilde? How much did Hemingway? These are just some of the many great questions of Western literature ignored in this book. From the author of A Prairie Home Companion's beloved "Five-Minute Classics" comes The Five-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics, a witty and profane lampoon of the Western literary canon -- the Spinal Tap of literature. "I will never write such wordy trash again," Leo Tolstoy said of War and Peace after reading Homer in the original Greek. Tolstoy's pledge inspired humorist Greg Nagan to whet his double-edged verbal sword and offer this gleefully twisted take on what contemporary readings of the Great Books say about our society today. From The Iliad to On the Road, these fifteen parodies provide a riotous romp through Western civilization (one version of it, anyway) from Homer to Kerouac, from Ancient Greece to Postwar America, from the Lyrical Epic to the Breathless Gush. Nagan's mirthful mayhem will delight those who've read the Great Books, and those who haven't read them will find these literary caricatures entertaining in their own right.