Famous Short Story

The Gallia County Historical Society located on Second Avenue, Gallipolis, Ohio is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the history of Gallia County. Brittany Hively | OVP The Gallia County Historical Society (GCHS) has a number of out-of-print books that have been reprinted and are now available for the public. Brittany Hively | OVP GALLIPOLIS, Ohio — The Gallia County Historical Society (GCHS) has a number of out-of-print books that have been reprinted and are now available for the public. Cheryl Enyart, managing director Gallia County Historical Society, said the society has reprinted books that are difficult to find. "The only way you can find them is through eBay or an auction or somebody advertise...

In a world filled with technology, the importance of books is indispensable If your childhood in any way resembled mine, you probably spent countless nights in your room reading your favorite book series far past your bedtime, repeatedly saying "one more chapter" to yourself as your eyelids grew heavier by the minute. I remember fondly the first time I cracked open a "Percy Jackson" book my sister handed down to me — which became an obsession that captivated me throughout elementary school — and I remember the hollow feeling that engulfed me when I finished the last chapter of "The Hunger Games". Even if you were not a pre-teen novel aficionado like me, you likely have a warm, vivid memory of a cherished book tucked away deep in your memory bank. What about that time you cried while reading Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree", or all of the laughs you shared with Greg and Rowley through "Diary of A Wimpy Kid"? The right book is u...

Prince Andrew rescued a dog from falling out of a castle but a story about the incident in a U.K. newspaper earned derision on Twitter. The Duke of York was praised for "sympathy and quick-thinking" over the "heart warming tale" by journalist and former Member of Parliament Matthew Parris in paper of record The Times of London. The article came on the same day Andrew accepted he has now been served in his Jeffrey Epstein-related sex abuse lawsuit. Virginia Giuffre has accused Queen Elizabeth II's son of sexually abusing her in London, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the early 2000s. Parris wrote: "The dog, excited by the sound of royal security hounds barking on the drive beneath the window, ran at the open window and, teetering on the window-ledge, looked about to lose his footing and fall to earth many storeys below. "Other guests noticed but Andrew acted. He rushed to the window, grabbed the little dog just in time and brought him cradled i...

Key Takeaways Amazon's Kindle Vella spotlights the growing market for episodic stories, designed for mobile devices, unfolding as larger narratives over time. It's the latest example of Amazon moving into a new area of publishing. Vella faces tough competition from Wattpad, Radish Fiction, and many others. Some early Kindle Vella authors say the overall audience hasn't met their expectations. Amazon says it's just getting started. It's supplementing royalties with bonuses in the meantime to help keep authors engaged. Best-selling romance novelist Audrey Carlan's formula for success as an author on Amazon's Kindle Vella sounds almost like relationship advice: it takes commitment, communication, and an ability to spice things up with some suspense. Carlan's series The Marriage Auction is one of the most popular on Kindle Vella, Amazon's new mobile platform for episodic stories. Her experience is a window into the tech giant's latest...

If you want to be scared out of your skin this fall, haunted houses and terrifying movies aren't your only choices. Rather, have you considered delving into the hair-raising world of literary horror? The genre has been terrorizing audiences since the ancients wove demons, monsters, and ghosts into their folklore; now, it's a lively literary sector populated by spooks both supernatural and frighteningly real. We've chosen ten of our favorite tales to get you started, which feature all the fright night mainstays you know and love, from witches to zombies to killer clowns. As jam-packed with the occult as these novels may be, contemporary horror isn't just about things that go bump in the night. Through the prism of genre conventions, today's horror novels reflect the all-too real horrors of our world back at us. From racism to misogyny to sexual predation, these novels prove that the scariest evils are the ones we live with every day, not the monsters animating our ni...

As a high school English teacher, the quest to keep my curriculum relevant to my students is ongoing. I'm always on the lookout for new stories or authors that I can bring in the classroom to ensure that it's something my students haven't read or seen before. Of course, I'm constantly trying to change the activities to make them develop critical thinking skills. But if those activities are based around the same old tired (read: white) short stories for high school students, it often doesn't matter how fun or innovative the activity is, the students are not interested because they can't relate. Why are new short stories for high school students important? In education, we are constantly selling the idea of acquiring knowledge. Teens' attention is being fought over by exponentially more distractions than they were even as recently as ten years ago. Instead of complaining about "kids these days" and taking the "when I was your age...

Two cult authors both wrote about human nature – and the dystopian horrors that technology can unleash. Dorian Lynskey explores the parallel lives of the writers whose work still resonates. One day in 1920, the Czech writer Karel Čapek sought the advice of his older brother Josef, a painter. Karel was writing a play about artificial workers but he was struggling for a name. "I'd call them laborators, but it seems to me somewhat stilted," he told Josef, who was hard at work on a canvas. "Call them robots then," replied Josef, a paintbrush in his mouth. At the same time in Petrograd (formerly St Petersburg), a Russian writer named Yevgeny Zamyatin was writing a novel whose hi-tech future dictatorship would eventually prove as influential as Čapek's robots. More like this: -          The Frankenstein's monsters of today -     ...