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short story

noun as in short work of fiction

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He had ambitions to turn a short story of his called “Cotton” into an animated short.

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It is madness that people feel sorry for Eubank, but this is boxing and people buy into the short stories and social media narratives.

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He hid his pain by visiting it on fictional stand-ins in his early short stories.

The most important of these was “The Portable Faulkner,” a perceptively organized anthology of novel excerpts and short stories, for Viking Press in 1946.

More like a short story, recounting the evening from Hart’s point of view as he reconciles with the fact that his former creative partner Richard Rodgers has created a hit with Oscar Hammerstein.

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