Fiction

A very, very long time ago, when the world was new. There was mischievous, manipulative giraffe (Gary the giraffe) He was lackadaisical and hated doing things on his own. The giraffe was hungry one day and saw a bird in a bumbo bungle tree picking some fruit. The giraffe (Gary the giraffe to be exact) couldn’t reach the bumbo bungle tree because his neck was short and stumped. So the mischievous manipulative giraffe (Gary) cried out to the bird “I'm hungry may I have some fruit”. The beautiful bird

“What! I demand to be let in.” Rose started, “Not only am I Nancy Nickerson’s daughter it is just common kindness.” There was a very stern guard blocking the clearing. There hasn’t been a development in Nancy’s disappearance and Rose and Nick were ready to give up. Then Mia said “I don’t believe there would be any harm if we could go to Nancy’s office would there. I mean this is her daughter she wouldn’t steal from her mom!” “Okay I guess I can make an arrangement where you could go …..” “Thank

“Do you ever think about death?” Abby gazed up at Keith as she had just asked his favorite color. Keith sat beside her on his bed looking fixedly at the carpet beneath his feet. A lengthy silence carried through the room as he tried to disregard the question. However, Abby, adamant, observed him fidgeting; his eyes scrutinizing through each contour in the Berber carpet at their feet. She knew that he had heard her. She wasn’t letting it go. “Keith, c’mon it isn’t a depraved question,” she urged

Flame sad that he had to leave his friend keeps going up the mountain.The air got thinner and thinner as he goes . Soon Flame Finds Dr cold on his cold throne. “Ha ha ha ha ha you Flame can’t stop me now,” says dr cold as he shoots a blizzard at him. Flame dodges the blizzard but slams into a wall his sight gets blurrier and blurrier. “Ha oldest trick in the book slam into a wall then shoot a blizzard Now I can attack you anywhere,” Exclaims the sinister Dr Cold . Pow boom crack Flame keeps getting

a few elements of this film seem to fit the popular definition of science fiction, but does it hold up under closer scrutiny? Unfortunately, simplifying the expansive genre of science fiction under one classification is not so easy. Using the ideas of Adam Roberts and other experts of the genre, we can begin to form the criteria for what constitutes a work of science fiction. One of the first conventions of a science fiction film is that the story must simultaneously exist in two worlds: one that

Science fiction is a genre of writing involving plots and themes related to future scientific advances and major social changes, often coming from the author’s imagination rather than from factual knowledge. With the advancement of Man’s knowledge resulting from the scientific revolution, fictional predictions about the future resulted in believable new works of science fiction. Some authors pictured future technologies that would benefit mankind in some way or would let mankind explore new boundaries

A Critique of Disability Narratives in Science Fiction For my RIP project, I chose to write a science fiction story through the diary entries of anintellectually and developmentally disabled woman, who lives in a future where eugenics is encouraged. The title is a reference to the science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was published in 1968, around the same time as the later half and end of the American eugenics movement. Thus, Dick’s novel can be read

Surprise in fiction stories creates interesting tension to the reader. Some of the readers can be familiar to the standard structure to the stories assuming it’ll be a three-act structure. When the reader starts to get closer at the climax they just start to skip around towards the end of the climax not expecting a surprise waiting for them at the end of the climax. There are specific tools that the fiction writer uses to build the surprise for the story. Surprise relies primarily on suspense. The

Science Fiction as a Thought Experiment Science fiction is a fairly new genre compared to many other literature styles but is one of the most relevant and evolving literary classifications. It is a huge genre that encompasses many different types of stories such as dystopian, utopian, superheroes, and more. Science fiction is primarily used as a reflection of society as well as a forecast of what current society could become. Science fiction is argued to be a “Gedankenexperiment,” or thought experiment

By the same token, the romance fiction genre pivots on the presentation of “women’s triumphs over systemic inequality” (Jagodzinski 9)¬–that is, Caucasian women’s triumphs, as the romance fiction genre “seldom extends that kind of concern to other marginalized groups” (Jagodzinski 9). The romance fiction genre’s endeavor to “debunk ideological justifications for women's subordination offers little insight into the domination” (Crenshaw 155) of women of color, and the messages that correlate with