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Tony Medina

Medina was also an accomplished poet and writer of short stories, and his poetry has been published in various literary anthologies.


And a Star to Steer Her By

And a Star to Steer Her By is a science fiction short story by G. Harry Stine under the name Lee Correy originally published in the June 1953 edition of Astounding Science Fiction.

Charles E. May

Charles E. May has published a number of scholarly books on short stories: Short Stories Theories, The Modern European Short Story, Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of the Short Fiction, Fiction's Many Worlds, and The New Short Story Theories - and over 200 articles to such journals as Studies in Short Fiction, Style, and The Minnesota Review.

Close Range: Wyoming Stories

The best known story from the collection is Brokeback Mountain, which was previously published as a 64-page novella in 1998.

Deadline for Love and Other Stories

Deadline for Love and Other Stories is a collection of 12 short stories written by Singaporean writer Catherine Lim.

Diego Masson

His activities as a composer and arranger were mainly from the early part of his career and included film scores composed for Équivoque 1900 (1966), and two Louis Malle projects, the "William Wilson" segment of the Edgar Allan Poe triptych Histoires extraordinaires (1968), and Black Moon (1975), for which he adapted music by Wagner.

Ender in Exile

Ender in Exile begins one year after Ender has won the bugger war, and begins with the short story "Ender's Homecoming" from Card's webzine Intergalactic Medicine Show.

Ennis Del Mar

Ennis del Mar (Del Mar in the film) is the fictional main character of the short story "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx and the 2005 Academy Award-winning film adaptation of the same name directed by Ang Lee.

Flappers and Philosophers

Flappers and Philosophers is the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920.

Gideon Stargrave

The character is based on J. G. Ballard's "The Day of Forever" and Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius, which led to accusations of plagiarism from Moorcock.

Goldmoon

The short story "Heart of Goldmoon", written by Laura Hickman and Kate Novak and published in the Love and War (1987) recompilation, gives insight about her life after her mother died, explaining that the Que Shu community is built around the figure of a high priestess, and whoever marries the priestess becomes Chieftain of the tribe, with the first daughter of the couple becoming the next priestess.

Gondour

Gondour is a fictitious republic created by Mark Twain in his short story "The Curious Republic of Gondour", and popularized by Robert A. Heinlein and his heirs.

In the Court of the Dragon

"In the Court of the Dragon" is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895.

Inertialess drive

Inertialessness, though not for faster-than-light travel, is discussed in Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah's Children, Isaac Asimov's short story The Billiard Ball, Larry Niven’s Known Space universe, Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead, Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey, and

Jammy Smears

It was the last of the three albums he released on Virgin Records, and as with the previous two he is joined by Phyllis King, who reads six of her own poems and short stories.

Kerberos Saga Rainy Dogs

"The Killers" (キラーズ, kirāzu) is an independent short story which is a parody of Ernest Hemingway's classic "The Killers".

Leonid Solovyov

Leonid Solovyov also wrote many screenplays including one based on Nikolai Gogol's story "The Overcoat".

Living to Tell the Tale

It focuses heavily on García Márquez' family, schooling, and early career as a journalist and short story writer, and includes references to numerous real-life events that ended up in his novels in one form or another, including the Banana massacre that appears prominently in One Hundred Years of Solitude and the friend of his whose life and death were the model for Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

Michael McGruther

In 2001, Extra Life, a drama about coming-of-age in the digital world; in 2004, Arthur C. Clarke's prophetic novel Prelude to Space; and in 2005, Blood Son, based on the 1951 short story by legendary science fiction and horror writer Richard Matheson.

Mustafa Ziyalan

His poetry, short fiction, essays and poetry translations (from Paul Auster, Ingeborg Bachmann, Erich Fried and Anna Akhmatova, among others) have appeared in many literary periodicals, anthologies and in book form since 1983.

Nathan C. Brooks

Poe's "Ligeia", "A Predicament" (published as "The Scythe of Time"), and "The Haunted Palace" were all originally published in Brooks' magazine.

Nemo me impune lacessit

"The Cask of Amontillado" - a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, where Nemo me impune lacessit is the family motto of the character Montresor.

New Puritans

The New Puritans was a literary movement ascribed to the contributors to a 2000 anthology of short stories entitled All Hail the New Puritans, edited by Nicholas Blincoe and Matt Thorne.

Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer (born 1974) is an American fiction writer, and is the author of the novels American Rust and The Son, as well as short stories published in McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Iowa Review, and Esquire UK.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

It is believed that his painting The Hunters in the Snow influenced the classic short story with the same title written by Tobias Wolff and featured in In the Garden of the North American Martyrs.

Prem Parkash

Sahitya Akademi (Indian academy of letters) award-winner Prem Parkash (born April 7, 1932. Khanna, Ludhiana district) is one of the major short story writers in post-1947 East Punjabi literature.

Richard Bachman

King wrote a short story, "The Fifth Quarter", under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of a character in the book Carrie), that was published in Cavalier magazine April 1972.

Roark Bradford

Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford (August 21, 1896 Lauderdale County, Tennessee — November 13, 1948 New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American short story writer and novelist.

Scrivener

A famous work of fiction featuring scriveners is the short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville, first published in 1853.

Short Cuts

Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver.

Signs and Symbols

"Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and first published, May 15, 1948 in The New Yorker and then in Nabokov's Dozen (1958: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York).

Spierig brothers

Their next film, Predestination, based on the science fiction short story "—All You Zombies—" by Robert A. Heinlein and co-written and co-directed by the twins, is scheduled for filming in January 2013.

Stephen King's F13

The "Frightware" bundle also includes a set of "Screamsavers", "Bump and Thump" sound effects, "Deathtop" backgrounds, and Stephen King's short novella Everything's Eventual.

Street of Crocodiles

The Street of Crocodiles was originally a short story written by Bruno Schulz, from a story collection published under that title in English translation.

Sucker Bait

Asimov finished his short story, and then Anderson finished a story called "Question and Answer", but Kidd (or James Blish) never completed the third story.

Susana Rodríguez

Rodríguez was inspired by the flash fiction story El emigrante by Luis Felipe Lomelí to create an installation named ¿Olvida usted algo? – ¡Ojalá! that opened in August 2009 at the Casa del Lago in Mexico City.

The Color of Friendship

The film was based on a short story called "Simunye" written by the real-life Piper Dellums about a South African girl named Carrie coming to stay with her family.

The Doll Family

In fact, Harry himself brought to Browning's attention the Tod Robbins story "Spurs" on which the film was based.

The Lass of Roch Royal

"The Lass of Aughrim," an Irish version of "The Lass of Roch Royal," figures prominently in the story "The Dead" by James Joyce.

The Sowers of the Thunder

The Sowers of the Thunder is a short story by Robert E. Howard (published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932) that takes place in Outremer, (the Crusader states) in the time of General Baibars and deals with the General's friendly/adversarial relationship with Cahal Ruadh O'Donnell, an Irish Crusader with a troubled past cut in the Howardian mold.

Thou Art the Man

"Thou Art the Man", originally titled "Thou Art the Man!", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844.

Turning On

An Ace paperback reprinting in 1967 omitted the story "The Handler".

Victor Séjour

Though mostly unknown to later American writers, his short story "Le Mulâtre" ("The Mulatto") is the earliest known work of fiction by an African-American author.

Ward Moore

Moore is also known for the two short stories (since collected) "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954) which are postapocalyptic tales with parallels to the Bible.

What Time Is It?

"What Time Is It?", a short story by Isaac Asimov, included in the collection Casebook of the Black Widowers

William Clark Falkner

Whether or not young William actually said this, the elder Falkner served as the model for the character of Colonel John Sartoris, who appeared in the novels Sartoris (1929) (reissued in an expanded edition as Flags in the Dust (1973)) and The Unvanquished (1938) as well as a number of short stories.

William Gahan

In James Joyce's story Araby, a copy of Gahan's "The Devout Communicant" is one of several paper-bound books which the protagonist - an adolescent boy in Dublin at the turn of the 20th Century - finds among old papers left by a decesased former tenant in his home, who had been a priest.

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

The film uses many elements from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat", and acknowledges this influence in the film's opening credits.

Yue Lao

Yue-Laou (sic) appears as a character in Robert W. Chambers' short story "The Maker of Moons" from the collection of the same name in 1896.


see also

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a 2007 drama feature film directed by Wayne Wang starring Yu Feihong, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha Lychnikoff, adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera.

Algis Budrys

Also published in the short story anthology The War Book (edited by James Sallis, 1969).

Barentin Viaduct

The building of the Viaduct is fictionalized in Julian Barnes's short story "Junction," published in his 1996 volume Cross Channel.

Broken Blossoms

It is based on Thomas Burke's short story "The Chink and the Child" from the 1916 collection Limehouse Nights.

Bülent Akinci

After shooting some short films, he finally won the F. W. Murnau prize in 2002 for his short film A short story (2001), starring actress Gudrun Landgrebe.

Carol Windley

Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Cheat Bridge, West Virginia

Over 40 years later, celebrated satirist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce revisited the site of his youthful service.

Chupi Chupi Aashey

Though the credits list Mitra as the story writer, Chupi Chupi Aashey was adapted from Agatha Christie's radio play and short story Three Blind Mice and stage play The Mousetrap.

Cybernetic revolt

Artificial General Intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky has stated on this note that, probabilistically, humanity is less likely to be threatened by deliberately aggressive AIs than by AIs which were programmed such that their goals are unintentionally incompatible with human survival or well-being (as in the film I, Robot and in the short story "The Evitable Conflict").

Dykanka

Dykanka is the location of the short story collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.

Esther Kahn

Deplechin adapted the screenplay with regular collaborator Emmanuel Bourdieu from a short story by Arthur Symons of the same name from his book Spiritual Adventures.

Fictitious entry

A Fred Saberhagen science fiction short story, "The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron," in which an encyclopedia article for a star system was a fictitious entry included in the encyclopedia to detect plagiarism, which caused a ship to end up in an empty star system where it ran out of fuel and ceased to be a threat to humanity.

Githyanki

There is also passing reference to them in Martin's short-story collection Tuf Voyaging.

Glen David Gold

Gold has also ventured into comic books, writing a short story featuring Will Eisner's classic creation The Spirit.

Great Army of the Ant-Men

Like many other characters in the series who are inspired by another fictional work, the Ant-Men are inspired by the monster enemies from the Locust Horde in the game Gears of War and also draw elements from the 1905 short story "Empire of the Ants" by H. G. Wells.

Gus: The Theatre Cat

The description in the original poem about Gus playing a "Tiger... which an Indian Colonel pursued down a drain" is a reference to the short story The Adventure of the Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Hikmet

Hikmet Temel Akarsu, Turkish novelist, short-story writer, satirist and play writer

Hokusai

Hokusai inspired the Hugo Award winning short story by science fiction author Roger Zelazny, "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai", in which the protagonist tours the area surrounding Mt. Fuji, stopping at locations painted by Hokusai.

I Am No One You Know: Stories

I Am No One You Know: Stories is a short story collection by Joyce Carol Oates.

In Darkness Waiting

In Darkness Waiting is a science fiction short story by Stephen Leigh.

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

The Marvelous Orange Tree trick was used by the eponymous conjurer in Steven Millhauser's short story, "Eisenheim The Illusionist", subsequently filmed as The Illusionist (2006), where a more complex variant is shown.

John Farris

His short story I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream. was adapted for the Showtime anthology series Masters of Horror in 2007.

Juan Soto Ivars

He co-edited the short story collection Mi madre es un pez (2011) with Sergi Bellver.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

In James Joyce's short story "Eveline", part of his Dubliners, a "coloured print of the promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque" is mentioned as part of the decorations of an Irish home at the turn of the 20th Century, testifying to her enduring popularity among Irish Catholics.

Martha Batiz

In 1996 she was the first Mexican to ever be awarded an accesit in the International Short-story Contest "Miguel de Unamuno" in Salamanca, Spain, where her story competed against 1,708 entries from Latin America and Spain.

Mathieu Demy

He produced and directed in 2000 his first film, Le Plafond (35’), adapted from a short story by Tonino Benacquista.

My Pretty Pony

"My Pretty Pony" is a short story written by Stephen King and illustrated by the artist Barbara Kruger.

Mystery By Moonlight

In November 2002 Her Interactive released the 7th computer game in the Nancy Drew Series, Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, based loosely on this book and a short story in the Nancy Drew Ghost Stories.

Pepper Young's Family

It was created and written by short story author and playwright Elaine Sterne Carrington.

Pera Palace Hotel

In Ernest Hemingway's short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, the main character, writer Harry, stays at the Pera Palace hotel while serving in the military during the Allied occupation of Constantinople (Istanbul) in World War I.

Prince Islands

Many Turks fondly remember the Islands as home to famous short-story writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık and football legend Lefter Küçükandonyadis.

Raja'a Alem

Her short story "One Thousand Braids and a Governess" has been translated into English and published in "Voices of Change: short stories by Saudi Arabian women writers" edited by Abubaker Bagader, Ava M. Heinrichsdorff, Deborah Akers Her birth in Mecca and her family background is highly influential to her work and outlook.

Robert Beadell

He also wrote two symphonies, five film scores, song cycles, piano pieces, chamber music, and five stage works: an operetta, The Kingdom of Caraway (1957), a musical, Out to the Wind (1979, based on Willa Cather's short story "Eric Hermannson's Soul"), and three operas, The Sweetwater Affair (1960, produced 1961), The Number of Fools (1965–66, rev. 1976), and Napoleon (1972, produced 1973) (Smith 2006, 12).

Servant Girl Annihilator

William Sydney Porter, better known as the short story writer O. Henry, was living in Austin at the time of the murders.

Sigrid the Haughty

Karen Blixen, in the short story "The Deluge at Norderney" in Seven Gothic Tales, refers to Sigrid, claiming that she invited all her suitors to her house and burned them in order to discourage other suitors.

Sophie Cooke

In 2006 her short story Skin And Bones was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, performed by the actress Laura Fraser.

Stewart v. Abend

The short story was then made into the acclaimed movie Rear Window (1954), directed by Hitchcock and starring Stewart.

Taganrog Museum of Art

Renowned playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov played a major role in establishing the collection of his home city through his connections in St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and his friends like Mark Antokolski etc.

Ten Stories About Smoking

Ten Stories About Smoking is the debut short story collection by writer Stuart Evers.

The Farmer and the Viper

Khushwant Singh's short-story "The Mark of Vishnu" (1950) gives the story an Eastern background.

The Loneliest Planet

The film is adapted from McSweeney's writer Tom Bissell's short story "Expensive Trips Nowhere," published in his collection God Lives in St. Petersburg.

The Music Box

His short story Another Fine Mess from the collection Quicker Than the Eye features the ghosts of Laurel and Hardy haunting the staircase by replaying the scene.

The Pit and the Pendulum

In 1983, Czech Surrealist Jan Švankmajer directed a 15-minute live action short film called The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope, based on this story and the short story "A Torture by Hope" by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.

The Secret Place

:"The Secret Place" is also the title of the Nebula Award-winning short story by Richard McKenna

Tlon

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", a short story by the 20th century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

The screenplay was written by George Toles and inspired by the novel Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsen, with an additional literary touchstones being the short story "La Vénus d'Ille" (1837) by Prosper Mérimée.

Two Hearted River

As such, it was the title of a famous short story, "Big Two-Hearted River", by U.S. author Ernest Hemingway.

VIA Talas

By the time the band had released their debut album Perfektan dan za banana ribe (A perfect day for bananafish), in 1983, under the name Talas, which got the title by the J. D. Salinger's short-story A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Pečar and Mijatović were the only band members.

Will Blythe

His short story "The Taming Power of the Small" was anthologized in the Best American Short Stories for 1988 and adapted into a 1995 short film starring David Morse and Treat Williams.