Who needs fairy tales when you can have scary tales instead! Scary Tales is a collection of frightfully fun showcase solos for late beginners composed by Lisa Donovan Lukas. Great for Halloween or anytime of the year that a spooky mood strikes!
This Creative Writing project explores interfusional storytelling, a blending of oral and written literatures, as defined by Thomas King. The stories and poems in this collection use a number of narrative voices to tell the stories of an nłeʔkepmx world I created/am creating. Even the third person narrators have spoken parts in some of the stories; in "Three Bucks," for example, the narrator interrupts a story another character tells because the narrator thinks the teller is taking too long. Both "Snk̓y̓ép and His Shiny New Choker," and "Little Trees" attempt Menippean satire. Because I do not want to simply repeat what has already been done, in terms of interfusionality and Indigenous storytelling, the opening story, "Splatter Pattern," incorporates the first person plural "we" to tell itself. The artist's statement was a painful experience. I rarely tell my personal story; it is painfully boring and uninteresting to consider, let alone put on paper. If you choose to skip it, well that is just fine with me. But do enjoy the project. "Tales for Late Night Bonfires" will be a book once I round out the collection by adding the novella called "Grandpa vs. Santa Claus," and a short story featuring Jim Morrison, called "Hazel's Last Ride" (You will meet Hazel in "Roadkill").
Fifteen years in, an eclectic club of highly talented musicians, including Four Tet, Franz Ferdinand, Nils Frahm, Röyksopp and Belle & Sebastian, has dug into the deep and darker corners of their record collections to provide us with their ultimate nocturnal soundtrack, specially designed for the calm of the after party or a lonely walk through the darkness. Actors like Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as writers like Will Self, have provided the spoken word portion.
Holmes released his compilation album for Late Night Tales, on the October 21. The Late Night Tales fraternity produces collections of personal songs and music, peppered with exclusives and rare gems, and it is a collection well worth investing in.
LNT visited Frahm at his Berlin apartment to talk the compilation process and get a tour of his personal record collection, which includes everything from 78s to "ridiculous" minidiscs to a portable phonograph. Watch the "Behind the Records" short film and check out his complete LNT track list below.
Through Thatcher and Tobey, Dunbar met an agent and secured more public readings and a publishing contract. He then published Lyrics of Lowly Life, a poetry collection derived primarily from verse already featured in Oak and Ivy and Majors and Minors. This new volume sold impressively across the country. On the strength of his recent acclaim, Dunbar commenced a six-month reading tour of England. There he found publishers for a British edition of Lyrics of Lowly Life and befriended musician Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (not to be confused with Samuel Taylor Coleridge), with whom he collaborated on the operetta Dream Lovers.
When Dunbar returned to the United States in 1897, he obtained a clerkship at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Although his health suffered during the two years he lived there, the period nonetheless proved fruitful for Dunbar. In 1898, he published his first short story collection, Folks From Dixie (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898), in which he delineated the situation of African Americans in both the pre-and post-emancipation United States. Although these tales, unlike some of his dialect verse, were often harsh examinations of racial prejudice, Folks From Dixie was well received upon publication.
At the end of 1898, his health degenerating still further, Dunbar left the Library of Congress and commenced another reading tour. In 1899, he published another verse collection, Lyrics of the Hearthside (Dodd, Mead and Company), which was well-received by critics. However, in the spring of that year, his health lapsed. Ill with pneumonia, the already tubercular Dunbar was advised to rest in the mountains. He moved to the Catskills in New York State but continued to write while recovering.
After a brief stay in Colorado in 1900, Dunbar returned to Washington, D.C. Shortly before his return, he published another collection of tales, The Strength of Gideon (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900), in which he continued to recount Black life both before and after slavery. Reviewers at the time favored his pre-emancipation stories, which were seen as humorous and sentimental, and ignored work that detailed volatile accounts of abuse and injustice.
Limulady, or Limu for short, is the main antagonist and opponent of Chapter 1 of Late Night City Tales. She is the chamberian of the castle in which the story takes place, looking after the place in the absence of her master and giving tours to visitors. However, while she seems friendly at first, she tends to become either attached to visitors, trying to get them to stay with her, and if they piss her off, then she turns them into stone statues and adds them to her master's collection. Boyfriend is the latest visitor to interest her, and it seems she has no issue trying to take him from Girlfriend in the process.
All of our stories are Kid-Tested and Kid-Approved. We are the WORLD'S FIRST Kid-tested and Kid-approved collection of folktales & fairy tales. Each story is based on themes of human ethics. Our stories are diverse, non-denominational and contain themes of respect, honesty, and caring.
Reading stories to kids is a wonderful way to spend the end of each day and create memories which will last forever. Reading can be the most magical moment of the day. Taking that child to a world of discovery through a story will surely leave a lasting impression. Read our collection of stories for kids to your children today and see the positive impact they have.
Our children's stories come from folktales (or folk tales), stories that have been shared from generation to generation by word of mouth, from all over the world. Folktales have been shared for thousands of years and are the starting point for most of your favorite tales and Disney movies. This collection of stories for kids has stories which are 10 min and are for a longer reading experience or for older children.
All of our stories for kids have positive morals and teach important values such as friendship, kindness and gratitude. Our children's folktale stories consist of fairy tales, animal tales, riddles stories, myths and legends,from all over the world! Our stories for kids are kid-tested to ensure read time, reading level, and kid-approval. They are multicultural and feature positive moral messages. Share our short stories for kids with those children in your life and share the joy and love we have for stories and storytelling.
You will find stories you love. Stories to Grow By provides a collection of World Tales. Folktales, fairytales, fables, and more! Stories from various countries and cultures! We have you covered. View our special collection of world tales HERE.
Stories to Grow By also offers teaching resources! This includes over 100 free bedtime stories, fairy tales, folk tales, readers theater play scripts, and performance notes! You will find the stories and the materials you need for your classroom with Stories to Grow By.
Many people were read bedtime stories in their childhood. And even as adults, many do not want to go to bed without them. On this page, you will find a wide collection of free bedtime stories for adults.
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde received a Pushcart Prize for her story "The Future is a Click Away." First published in BOMB and then in her speculative collection, The Last Catastrophe, the story imagines a near-future community grappling with the seductive power of a corporate algorithm. Recently, Gabrielle Bellot wrote about "The Future is a Click Away" in an article about AI and literature for LitHub, noting that the story shows how "artificial intelligence is already deeply embedded in our culture, yet all too many of us seem to think of it as something new."
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde published her third book, the speculative story collection The Last Catastrophe. Comprised of fourteen short stories and a novella, the collection imagines vegan zombies, a herd of RVs, a finishing school in space, and more, to speak to futures rife with disaster. Booklist noted in a starred review that THE LAST CATASTROPHE exposes "the absurdities of trying to survive in a world increasingly warped by climate change, hunger, and capitalist priorities." The Chicago Review of Books called the collection both "funny" and "remarkably hopeful" despite its subject matter.
Read interviews with Hyde about The Last Catastrophe at Electric Literature, Shondaland, The Creative Independent, and also listen to podcasts from the Ohio Center for the Book, Keen on, Austin Liti Limits, among other venues. To read about and listen to a playlist inspired by the collection, check out Largehearted Boy.
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde published a short story titled "A Whale Tale" in the Rainbow Issue of The Fairy Tale Review, an issue dedicated to queer contemporary fairy tales. She also published a short story titled "Democracy in America" in The Massachusetts Review that reimagines Alexis de Tocqueville's journey through America through a speculative, near-future lens.
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde published a short story in The Sun. The story, titled "Frights", considers climate change from the perspective of ghosts. It will be included in her forthcoming story collection, The Last Catastrophe.
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde published a short story titled "The Future is a Click Away" in BOMB. The story imagines a powerful near future algorithm that takes targeted marketing to an extreme. The piece is available in the latest issue of BOMB, and will also be included in Hyde's forthcoming story collection, The Last Catastrophe.
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