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If you hear the words “once upon a time,” you might guess that you’re hearing the beginning of a child’s fairy tale. And if you hear the words “and they all lived happily ever after,” you know you’ve ...

Do you love stories? I do. Passionately. In less than an hour a simple short story can transport me to the moon and back home again. When our lives become turbulent, the short story structure reminds ...

This is the structure of a lot of stories we hear on the radio. It's a series of quotes from people (the vertical lines) commenting on one topic (horizontal line). He said. She said. Critics disagree.

BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg has a new show on Netflix, Long Story Short, and it's just as great as his ...

Nucleons, comprising protons and neutrons, are not elementary particles but are built from quarks and gluons held together by the strong nuclear force. At typical inter-nucleon distances, effective ...

Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author who perfected the art of the contemporary short story, died on Monday, May 13, Penguin Random House Canada has confirmed. She was 92 years old. In ...

What could be better than a short story collection combined with a graphic novel? Honestly, I think this is one of those combinations — like peanut butter and jelly or Nutella and pretty much anything ...