Short Story: Our Old House: Rowland Addison was not a happy kid; not even close to it. It was a horrible day, just one mishap after another. It had all started with school. As usual, he had been late. As usual, he had failed the test. As usual, he was picked last for dodge ball in P.E. As usual, nothing was going his way and anyone could see it. He was at the bottom of the barrel; the lowest of the lows, but at least he knew it couldn’t get much worse or could it? Sighing, he dragged his red…

face and back. We trudged through the mud, sinking in our boots feet deep. All we could see was our breathe, all we could hear was the wind slapping against the trees, rain hitting, and our boots squishing in the mud. We expected the weather to be like this, the weather channel had been going crazy all week about a storm passing through our way around 5 pm today. Just as predicted the rain became heavier, fog thicker, and sky darker. But our search group did not give up; we had been searching months…

haven’t seen each other for five months or more. But last night, we met at Letoile Parlor. I didn’t expect to see you there, but I found you seated in front of me. You probably noticed that I immediately look down the minute I saw you. Why I behaved that way, you will soon know. For the time being, it is enough for you to know that something had sneaked into my breast causing my flesh to shudder. I lost my appetite for ice cream. I was forced to look up when you asked: Say, Kid, where have you been…

Damon and I killed you!” yelled Elena. “Magic has it’s ways” Katherine retorted. “If you can’t die being a vampire then you will have to die being a mortal.” Elena spoke. Elena grasped the cure to vampirism in her pocket and shoved it into her mouth. Katherine’s body shook then she passed out. Elena called Damon and Stefan Salvatore, to explain everything that happened. Within 20 seconds they were in her room. They went into the third-story bedroom where they could discuss Katherine without anyone…

writing a short story. Many a time, writers run out of these short story ideas upon exhausting their sources of short story ideas. If you are one of these writers, who have run out of short story ideas, and the deadline you have for coming up with a short story is running out, the short story writing prompts below will surely help you. Additionally, if you are being tormented by the blank Microsoft Word document staring at you because you are not able to come up with the best short story idea, you…

The themes of short stories are often relevant to real life? To what extent do you agree with this view? In the short stories “Miss Brill” and “Frau Brechenmacher attends a wedding” written by Katherine Mansfield, the themes which are relevant to real life in Miss Brill are isolation and appearance versus reality. Likewise Frau Brechenmacher suffers through isolation throughout the story and also male dominance is one of the major themes that are highlighted in the story. These themes are…

No Way Out The darkness encloses its cape around every surfaces of her body. The cape circles slowly with each move she takes, every thought she makes, and sometimes the cape slithers and wraps around her throat, thinking at any moment it will break. As she puts one foot in front of the other, after another, and after another, the darkness and its cape soon become cold, hard, metal bars. The bars remind her that as the days go on one by one by one that she will forever be entrapped. No matter…

Short story: Definition and History. A short story like any other term does not have only one definition, it has many definitions, but all of them are similar in a general idea. According to The World Book Encyclopedia (1994, Vol. 12, L-354), “the short story is a short work of fiction that usually centers around a single incident. Because of its shorter length, the characters and situations are fewer and less complicated than those of a novel.” In the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary…

Finding the Way with Service Animals Johnny had never smiled in his entire four years of life, until July, 2015. He received a life changing gift, a service dog trained as a companion to children with autism. His family had researched and tried many ways to help him have an easier and more interactive life but to no avail until he got his service dog. Improving life emotionally, physically and/or socially is the overall goal of people and/or families with service animals. There has been a long history…

Adventure is Out There In the short story, “The Green Door” by O. Henry, Rudolph Steiner is the main character. He has a job as a piano salesperson and has an interesting identity. He may look like an ordinary person, but on the inside, the author describes him as “a true adventurer; few were the evenings on which he didn’t go forth from his hall bedchamber in search of the unexpected”. (O.Henry) After dark, he investigates New York City, to find romance and adventure He always tries to find…