"Assumption" is Samuel Beckett's first published story, appearing in Transition magazine in June 1929, in the same issue as James Joyce's Work in Progress...
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States Assumption, Nebraska, United States Assumption, Ohio, United States Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States "Assumption" (short story), a 1929...
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"The Nose" (Russian: Нос, romanized: Nos) is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time...
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"The Storm" is a short story written by the American writer Kate Chopin in 1898. The story takes place during the 19th century in the South of the United...
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"Jack-in-the-Box" is a fantasy short story by American author Ray Bradbury, first published as part of the 1947 short story collection Dark Carnival. It...
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"Here We Are" is a short story by American writer Dorothy Parker, first published in Cosmopolitan Magazine on March 31, 1931. The story, written almost entirely...
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Earthsea (redirect from Firelight (short story))
Earthsea and The Other Wind (both 2001). In 2018, all the novels and short stories were published in a single volume, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete...
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Kerckhoffs's principle (redirect from Kerchoff's assumption)
Kerckhoffs's principle (also called Kerckhoffs's desideratum, assumption, axiom, doctrine or law) of cryptography was stated by Dutch-born cryptographer...
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Times is a work of short fiction by William Carlos Williams first published in the collection The Knife of the Times and Other Stories (1932) by New Directions...
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short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1968 and later reprinted in The Wind from the Sun as well as The Collected Stories...
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In Our Time is the title of Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, published in 1925 by Boni & Liveright, New York, and of a collection...
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Reconstructor (Russian: «Реконструктор») is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1990. The story "The Reconstructor" is written in the genre of...
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"Throwback" is a classic science fiction short story featuring atavism by L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in the magazine Astounding Science...
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"The Wife's Story" is a short story written by Ursula K. Le Guin. Written in a vernacular first-person narrative, the title character (who is eventually...
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The Assumption of the Virgin Mary does not appear in the New Testament, but appears in apocryphal literature of the 3rd and 4th centuries, and by 1000...
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I, James Blunt (category 1942 short stories)
the short story as "a good flesh creeper, founded on the justified assumption that the mass of the English people haven't heard of fascism." The short story...
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A Work of Art (redirect from A Work of Art (short story)))
science fiction short story by American writer James Blish. It was first published in the July 1956 issue of Science Fiction Stories with the title "Art...
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contacted by a reporter for The Oregonian, seeking his opinion on Longo's assumption of his identity. Unaware of Longo's case, Finkel is intrigued and arranges...
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Percival Everett (category 20th-century American short story writers)
Ted Turner. Assumption: A Novel (2011) is a triptych of stories with some characters who have been in earlier Everett stories. The story "Big" returns...
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Daniel Olivas (redirect from Assumption and Other Stories)
Assumption and Other Stories (subsequently published by Bilingual Press, 2003). Honorable Mention, Eternity Best of the Web Awards (2000), for short story...
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Hainish Cycle (category Articles with short description)
analysis of how background assumptions shift between stories. The Many Planets Imagined by Ursula Le Guin. A list of all the names from the many stories...
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romanized: Arkhiyerei) is a 1902 short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in the April 1902 issue of Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh. The story, telling about the last...
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The Assumption of the Virgin or Frari Assumption, popularly known as the Assunta, is a large altarpiece panel painting in oils by the Italian Renaissance...
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Retroactive continuity (category Articles with short description)
when assumptions or projections of the future are later proven wrong. Retcons are used by authors to increase their creative freedom, on the assumption that...
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The Assumption of the Virgin is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Annibale Carracci which was completed in 1590 and is now in the Museo del Prado...
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Allen Maldonado (category Articles with short description)
began making short films that appeared at numerous film circuits and won various awards. However, he found this dissatisfying as once the short film ran it...
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Recitatif (category Short stories by Toni Morrison)
"Recitatif" is Toni Morrison's first published short story. It was initially published in 1983 in Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women...
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recovered and accepts Chan's marriage proposal. Frank is arrested for assumption of authority. Chan remembers comforting the orphan Frank as a child after...
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Buzz Lightyear (redirect from Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story))
Toy Story upon its release, Thinkway Toys was unable to meet the demand for Buzz Lightyear figures in the holiday season of 1996. With the assumption that...
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fantasy-comedy short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1898 in The Illustrated London News. It carried the subtitle "A Pantoum in Prose". The story is an...
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