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Short Story Adaptations

Creating a short film used to be a long and difficult process, so I gave up on it. But then it became much easier to shoot and edit video.

Teaching Media Literacy With Short Stories

It’s not easy to find literature that gets students to talk about the world they live in. It can be done with any novel ...

Teaching Narrative Mode with Short Stories

Narrative mode is what makes fiction different from essays, history, and art forms like video and images. Without fiction ...

The Magic of Storytelling: Real and Fictional

I recently listened to the podcast “The Story of Your Life” on Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam. I felt like I was listening to ...

Magical Realism: Interpretation and Creation

Magical realism goes beyond the place that a metaphor takes us. It goes beyond the realm of comparison.

Bite-sized Prose, Buffet Conversations

Because distributing books has been a challenge this year, some of my students have been reading novels on their computer. From the...

Why Short Fiction?

This is the magic of fiction. Depending on the story, the author must pick and choose what facts and thoughts the audience will know and not

The Imaginary Reality of Technology and Fiction

More and more, the screen determines who we are, and not our relationships with real people.

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