Is it ever too late to become a writer, and not just a writer but a very respectable one, or perhaps the one ahead of his/her time? And what if you are a woman in her thirties and a single mother of six children, would you consider taking up a pen and start writing? Just […]
It didn’t take me long to decide on what short story to feature on the day before Christmas. Many writers have dedicated stories to this special day, and of course, everyone have read and knows such classical works like A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens or The Gift Of The Magi by O.Henry. However, my […]
Children are great at pretend games. Who doesn’t remember the dreams we had when we were little? Often we were pretending that those dreams came true and we’re in the rocket, or exploring the ocean with Captain Nemo, or simply enjoying our make-believe tea parties or boys’ favourite war games.
However the need for pretending doesn’t […]
People were always fascinated by child prodigies. Wikipedia has an extensive list of child prodigies on its site.
Mathematician Blaise Pascal already at the age eleven had worked out the first twenty-three propositions of Euclid. Pablo Picasso draw Picador at the age of eight. While everyone knows that Mozart started performing at the age of six, […]
I’ve always been a big fan of science fiction stories. For several years during and after high school I was primarily reading only sci-fi books. My favourite authors were the ones who masterly blended science fiction with psychology, the ones whose writings carried not only prophetic but also subliminal messages.
Kurt Vonnegut is one of […]
When a long time ago I read a story by Saki, I wondered whether the author had Persian roots. As it turned out, Saki is a pseudoname of the nineteenth century British writer Hector Hugh Munro. But I was right about the origins of his pen name that Munro adopted from one of the characters […]
After featuring last week one of the stories by O.Henry, who was called “the American answer to Guy de Maupassant” it’s only natural to showcase a story by the famous French short story writer and novelist, whose work influenced many other writers, like Anton Chekhov, W. Somerset Maugham. One of Maupassant’s horror stories, The […]
No short story collection can go without including something by William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry, the master of twist endings. The origin of his pen name is said to be borrowed from the writer’s family cat, Henry, whom he frequently called “Oh, Henry”.
In 1892, at the age of thirty six, […]
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