The Causes Of Short Stories

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    Authors often write literature to have an emotional impact on the reader. These effects vary from work to work, and they may include happiness, sorrow, anger, or shock. Even authors who try to achieve the same effect may go about it in very different ways. This paper discusses three short stories written to shock the reader, but each uses a different method to achieve its effect. While Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" uses a sudden shift in plot at the end of a short narrative, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" gives hints throughout the story preparing the reader for a shocking ending; in contrast, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"

New Sudden Fiction edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas – A short story collection of extremely small fiction. The longest story in the book is 6 pages, I think. Average story length is 3-4 pages. These pieces are like literary potato chips, satisfying and addictive. You’ll want to read just one more every time you pick up the book.

On an early Monday morning the sun rises over a small house located in a quiet town by the name of Old City of Rhoads in Greece. When the sun hits the small house, the house looks even smaller and the shadow of the house outlines the old looking torn apart boards holding the roof together. Even though this house looks old and small everyone in the town knows the story behind the man who used to live there, and the family who lives there now. The man who build and used to live in the house went by the name of Floyd Blackwood. Floyd was a master fisher man and would bring food to the town for family’s to buy and eat, because the town of Old City of Rhoads has always had a shortage of livestock. Floyd was basically a hero. He would spend his nights fishing, and his days building a house for him, his wife, and son. One day Floyd finished the house. And while his wife and son were settling in he decided to go fishing on his boat. Floyd went out to sea and started fishing but, before he could even realize how late it was and turn around he was trapped in a sea storm and did not make it out alive. The small house is now owned by Floyd’s wife, violet who lives with her now 17- year old son John.

Every story must start somewhere, but not every story has to have a complete ending, or even a clear one. With the development of the short story, the variation between short story endings has gradually increased as time has gone on, like the difference between a final ending in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” or John Cheever’s “The Swimmer.” However, the endings of some short stories also depend on the style of how the story is written, like Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds,” which is a part of a larger novel, and Kate Chopin’s “The Blind Man,” which is a new branch of short fiction writing called microfiction. The ending also comes about based on the subject matter found in the story. For example, Tan is a second-generation Chinese-American like her character, June, in “Two Kinds.” Cheever lived through the Great Depression, and his family went through a similar fall from grace like his character Neddy did in “The Swimmer.” They say to write what you know, and these authors come to their endings through their own experiences and the type of style that they write in.

Supper was always at six o’clock. Our one meal of the day, the highlight of our day. One stale slice of bread and one small pot of cold rice some suspected wasn’t even rice. A cup of water was also allowed to aid in washing down the miniscule amount of putrid food. Drinking the water thought could cause typhus. Supper was never a sufficient amount of food but it kept us breathing and denied us the energy we needed to attempt or even plan an escape. That was all the guards really wanted. Supper lasted around fifteen minutes although no one had a watch to properly time it. No one even knew what month it was; we just guessed it was autumn.

Having read many short stories in the past helps you assume the endings of some stories, before reaching the end. Some endings are surprising, which makes you want more, while others seem to be boring. Some endings don’t satisfy the readers and keeps them hanging, or guessing. Endings in stories are very important; they could make a book or break it. Two short stories that I have read recently where there is an ending twist are, “After Twenty Years” and “A Sound of Thunder.” Both stories include a surprise, but each surprise ending is different from the other. Each of the short stories endings had a different impact to me as a reader.

In the dark, cold house, Mrs. White turned to her husband with a glare that he has never seen before.

Once there was a boy and his brother they lived in a small town. One day the boys went to ride their bikes down the road, there parents told them not to go to Well Barry Road bad things happen there they said. So the boys agreed to not go down that road. The boys were riding until they saw a scary creepy house, but it was on Will Barry Road they boys said mom and dad will never know if we go look inside the house. So the boys rode down the road till they came to the house’s driveway. Chase the older brother said it's all grown up with grass and vines are all over the house. The boys got off their bikes they went to the door it was wide open until it slammed shut with a big BANG! In shock the boys fell back the ran to there bikes in the corner of Chases eye his saw a pale white face it looked like a clown. The boy never told their parents the next day they went back to the same house but this time they went inside the house.At first Chase was scared to go in because of he saw and heard yesterday. So he went to the door and rang the doorbell it was silent for a moment. Just then the door opened nobody was there so the boys yelled is anybody home.Then they saw something run fast across the window the boys went in the house the door slammed with a bang the boys tried to get out but the door was jammed. They yelled help help just then a voice said nobody coming to save you! The man in a clown costume he had sharp ,teeth red around, his eyes and ,black eyes. The clown ran

There is a family that came to America from lithuania. They made it to chicago finally. They didn’t know this but their life was going to become very hard. Long story short they have a few obstacles and they all are very close to jurgis emotionally. All of these obstacles hit him very hard and emotionally destroyed him. He tries very hard to run from his pain but gets put in jail with an old friend his friend begins to show him a new lifestyle which eased his pain.

On a cold, fall day, Bob was walking home from school. With a strong desire to get there quickly, he decided to take a shortcut into the woods. Something happened he got lost in the woods because he was walking along the path but he got distracted by a crow that keep making noises. Then the crow came back with man and he said “come with me to a village” Bob said “I’m not sure.” The man don’t take no for an answer so he charged at Bob and grabbed him and takes him to his village. While they were getting to the village Bob tried to escaped but the man won’t let Bob go. When they got there there were other people in the village staring at Bob then the man said “This is your new home and you can’t leave.” After Bob heard that he can’t leave he stayed calm because he had a plan to leave. Later that day the man gave Bob a house to stay and the man said “This is where your going to stay for the rest of life” Bob said “ok” the man seem suspicious about Bob because he should be scared that Bob is going to stay for the rest of his life. At a starry night while everyone is sleeping Bob plans his escape plan so he opened the door very slowly and walked out of the village quietly then the crow came back and signal all the people in the village to bring Bob back to the village. The people is the village were chasing Bob and said “COME BACK LITTLE BOY” but Bob kept running. After a couple miles Bob hid on a rock to catch his breath until the same crow made a very noise to signal the people

“With the help of Montague La-Rose, I opened a doorway. But there were consequences. Upon entering, the entity’s memory—Rayne’s memory—was wiped clean. It was a dangerous but necessary compromise. To win this war, we need both Rayne Volpi and Montague La-Rose to end the Nekrums’ madness. I already sent for Montague,” Burton said.

Lina Vilkas is like any other any other fifteen-year-old Lithuania girl. She enjoys painting, drawing and she gets crushes on boys. Until one night in June of 1941 Soviet secret police officers barge into Lina’s home and she gets arrested alongside her mother, Elena, and ten-year-old brother, Jonas tears her family from the comfortable life they've known. Her father Kostas has been arrested earlier, and they don’t know where he is. The family is given a small amount of time to pack all of their belongings before loaded onto a bus full of other arrested civilians. They are then ordered onto trains and placed there for six weeks with very little food to eat. With them are school teachers, librarians, stamp collectors, and even a young mother, Ona and her newborn child. Lina meets a handsome boy her age on the train named Andrius. Though, in the beginning, she has a rocky relationship with him over time they develop feelings for each other. Lina and Jonas go looking for their father and soon find him in another train car, and he gives them some words of encouragement. They are then separated, and Lina, Jonas, and Elena, including the rest of their train car, end up in Siberia, where the NKVD try to sell them to local villagers as slaves. As they are not bought, they are instead brought to a labour camp where they’re instructed to do backbreaking work and in return only receiving three hundred grams of bread a day. The Vilkases are demanded to live in a tiny shack with an

It was like any other day for me,birds were chirping, grass was growing and shadows were vandalizing property and wreaking havoc on the world.(22.) How all of this monstrosity happened is a long story so pull up a chair and listen.I’m Jack Jone and I was at a friend’s birthday party for a friend whose name I can’t say because he will be hunted down by the shadows. We had just finished the cake and had just started playing hide and seek.The birthday boy was the seeker and I was the hider(1.).”You should count to 10 and count very slowly,” I told him and he soon starts counting aloud”1,2,3…..” He counted. He was counting fast not slowly but that didn’t matter to the others, they were as fast as ninjas in the dead of night. I try to hide with one of them but she kicks me out of her hiding spot.”4,5,6…..” he still was counting down and I had to find a hiding spot quick”the forest is a really good spot” I thought to myself.I ran into the forest so fast all I heard as I was running was the fading sound of him counting”7,8,9,10 ready or not here I come” and hearing the screams of children being found and me as the kid always wanting to win ran farther and faster into the forest until I tripped on a root of a tree and phased through the ground into a hallowed cave.”SPLASH!!!” that was the sound I made when I landed on the water and the feeling of my body being slammed on water made my back feel like I broke my spine but with little energy and drowning because not being able to or

Sirens could be heard from all over the city. The news was on in every house, reporters saying “Convicted of robbery, Emily Stanford seen running down the streets of New York. The last we saw her was she was heading down to the bus stations. If anyone has any information on where she is going please call the police station.”