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    As was her habit to do between council meetings, Mithian retreated to the palace gardens on that morning. Anxiety unsteadied her gait along the familiar cobble-lined paths over the latest border reports with Cawdor and the Southrons. Disgust grated on her sensibilities concerning the advisors’ views on peasant affairs in the countryside. Impatience weighed down on her like a lead weight. Her heart kept tugging her back to the east…back in the direction of Camelot…. …back toward Merlin…. We had

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    “We’ll need a couple of blankets.” Chase told Sylvester. “We do?” He questioned. “Yea, we are about to leave town!” “We are?” He questioned again. “Atlanta.” “And how do we get there?” Sylvester asked. Chase evaded the question. “When we leave here, we're going to that abandoned Goodyear Tire building across from the park!" Sylvester wanted to hear more. "We sneak in the building. Steal a few blankets from the tramps that live there while they are out, running around looking for food!” “What if

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    Year: 2150 “Pablo… Pablo..” explained Elena as she tried to get his attention, though he continued to scroll his way on the small device as his face illuminated with shades of blue and white. “Yes Elena” replied, an annoyed Pablo whom looked up for a quick second, just to continue as he was doing. Elena nervously questioned “What if I don’t win” Pablo sighed loudly as he sat up from the small but expensive brown couch to turn to his wife of 7 years, “Elena.. The people love you. Of course

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    Gray- The train left with my dear Gabriela on, a beautiful smile on her face. I watched as long as I could see the train in the distance. Once I could no longer see it I petted Zippy's neck. "Let us be on our way boy, it is time to go home," I said as I pulled on his reins. Back at the station I lead the trio back to the stables of the castle. We tied our horses to the stables; I gave Zippy the apples and carrots Gabriela would have wanted me to give him. The three came up to me, they put their

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    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

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    Short story is a favourite form in literature in this modern age. It is a story which can be easily read in a sitting and which a type is of prose fiction or short fiction. It has separated norms for itself. It will give pleasure to the reader. According to Edgar Allan Poe, “Short story is a prose narrative requiring form half an hour to one or two hours in its personal.” (Vasans 68) Short story separated form literary form of literature which is distinguished from other forms of literature. Short

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    The short story Narrative genres, such as the novel or the short story, are born out of the very powerful human need to tell stories, out of our fundamental desire to give shape to experience in order to understand it and share it with the community. Through story telling early communities made sense of natural phenomena, unexpected events, and personal experience. Storytelling enabled them to pass on valuable information and to keep the memory of their ancestors alive down the generations. Storytelling

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    “There once was a story told a long, long time ago, about the haunted mill.” said the man with the big black hat on his head. My twin brother and I wondered what the rest of the story was so we asked the perplexed man. “Oh I don't know if I should tell you that.” said the mysterious man. We just looked at the man and wondered why he couldn't tell us. We wondered and wondered what that strange story was, we were not giving up until we found out the story. So once we got away from that strange man

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    A short story is a form of storytelling that does not waste space. It serves the reader details only relevant to the storyline. It aims to engage the reader immediately, by not filling the story with useless details but only that to which is necessary and holds their attention. A short story contains very little to no background information. It only provides that to which is required for the story. Each sentence helps develop the storyline and begins as quickly as they end taking the reader from

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    Short stories can be bland and boring. As you read some of them, you can feel emotion or just read a boring story about how something changed their life, but these three stories are interesting because they develop horror. These short stories use different elements to create horror. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “A Rose for Emily,”, and “The Lottery” develop horror/gothic elements. First, “The Tell-Tale Heart” develops horror by having an unreliable crazy narrator. For example, we see his psyche in the

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