Famous Short Story

A short story before bedtime: Bluebell Meadow by Benedict Kiely - TheJournal.ie A short story before bedtime: Bluebell Meadow by Benedict Kiely - TheJournal.ie Posted: 31 Aug 2019 12:00 PM PDT BENEDICT KIELY WOULD have been 100 on 15 August this year. Born in Dromore, he worked as a journalist and critic, and became one of Ireland's best known writers. He was published by notable publications such as the New Yorker, and was named Saoi of Aosdána. He died in 2007 and this year New Island has published a collection of his work. This story is taken from that collection.  Bluebell Meadow by Benedict Kiely When she came home in the evening from reading in the park that was a sort of an island, the sergeant who had been trounced by the gipsies was waiting to ask her questions about the bullets. He had two of them in the cupped palm of his right hand, holding the hand low down, secretively. His left elbow was on the edge of th...

Meritocracy Is Killing High-School Sports - The Atlantic Meritocracy Is Killing High-School Sports - The Atlantic Posted: 30 Aug 2019 03:00 AM PDT If you want to understand how income inequality and opportunity-hoarding by the rich can combine in toxic ways to hurt the less fortunate, you could look in all the usual places—elite colleges, housing policy, internships. Or you could look at high-school sports. In the 2018–19 school year, the number of kids participating in high-school sports declined for the first time in three decades. At least, that was the headline ; the reality was even worse. Thirty years ago, the high-school population itself was shrinking, due to a short-term falloff in births after the Baby Boom. This past school year is the only period on record when high-school sports participation declined even as school attendance increased. "It doesn't surprise me, but it definitely concerns me," Tom Farrey, t...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark review: a surprisingly scary, insightful film - The Verge Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark review: a surprisingly scary, insightful film - The Verge 33 Books You’ve Got To Read This Autumn - BuzzFeed News The Power of Storytelling: A PEN Ten Interview with Kali Fajardo-Anstine - PEN America Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark review: a surprisingly scary, insightful film - The Verge Posted: 09 Aug 2019 12:00 AM PDT With the success of Stranger Things and the new film version of Stephen King's It , nostalgia feels like something of a current horror trope. In these stories, the evocation of childhood fears mixes with pleasurable memories of childhood pop culture, adding a bit of sweet to horror's usual bitterness. At first, the theatrical film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark looks like it might be following in Stranger Things ' footsteps. The first scene is set to the backg...