Famous Short Story

SXSW 2021's short films are nothing short of wonderful - Daily Californian SXSW 2021's short films are nothing short of wonderful - Daily Californian Posted: 30 Mar 2021 08:54 AM PDT Short films aren't the kind of movies that just fall into your lap. Works of tight and taut storytelling, short films often elude mainstream consumption and tend to serve only the select bevy of viewers who seek them. In 2021, the South by Southwest, or SXSW, Film Festival demonstrated the short film's versatility by highlighting filmmakers who enhance and advance the short form. The festival's selection spans several categories: narrative shorts, documentary shorts, animated shorts, midnight shorts, Texas shorts and Texas high school shorts — films of five minutes or less created by high schoolers in the Lone Star state. Within this wealth of stories and styles, SXSW's program clearly demonstrates that the short film's potent...

Legendary lawman - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Legendary lawman - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Posted: 28 Mar 2021 12:47 AM PDT It is 1883 and a Black man in tramp shoes, a floppy felt hat and patched overalls walks 28 miles alone through Choctaw Nation to the home of the Coldiron family. He stops at the Coldiron place to beg for a little food and perhaps a place to rest. Mama Coldiron takes him in, feeds him supper and offers a spare room. What she doesn't know is that the poor, hungry traveler is actually famed lawman Bass Reeves, a deputy U.S. Marshal from Arkansas. The clever Reeves has come to her home in disguise to nab her outlaw sons, Thomas and Wayne. So begins "Hell on the Border," the gripping, hard-to-put-down second entry in a trilogy of historical novels about Reeves by Sidney Thompson, professor of creative writing and African American literature at Texas Christian University. The book, pub...

“The Trolley Solution,” a new short story by Shiv Ramdas. - Slate Magazine - Slate Magazine “The Trolley Solution,” a new short story by Shiv Ramdas. - Slate Magazine - Slate Magazine Larry McMurtry’s Best Books - The New York Times Graduate Course Shifts Focus on Black Women Writers, Away From the 'Single Story' - DrexelNow - Drexel Now “The Trolley Solution,” a new short story by Shiv Ramdas. - Slate Magazine - Slate Magazine Posted: 27 Mar 2021 06:00 AM PDT This story is part of Future Tense Fiction , a monthly series of short stories from Future Tense and Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives. This story and essay are the second in a series presented by Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College , as part of its work on Learning Futures and Principled Inn...