Ugly Truth!!!

Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read. 

                                                        Oscar Wilde

The Last Night of the World

By Ray Bradbury 

Originally published in the February 1951 issue of Esquire

"What would you do if you knew this was the last night of the world?"

"What would I do; you mean, seriously?"   

"Yes, seriously."

All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.” 

                                     George Orwell

Also, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead!!

From: http://lookwhatidrawed.blogspot.fr/2012/04/penguin-penguin-my-kingdom-for-penguin.html

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

                                     Mark Twain 

Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood

Happy Endings

Margaret Atwood

John and Mary meet.

What happens next?

If you want a happy ending, try A.

A glimpse of Paradise....

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

                                                                                                            Jorge  Luis Borges

See more: http://grethascholtz.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/book-art-24/

Symbols and Signs by Vladimir Nabokov

SYMBOLS AND SIGNS

by

Vladimir Nabokov

For the fourth time in as many years, they were confronted with the problem of what birthday present to take to a young man who was incurably deranged in his mind. Desires he had none. Man-made objects were to him either hives of evil, vibrant with a malignant activity that he alone could perceive, or gross comforts for which no use could be found in his abstract world. After eliminating a number of articles that might offend him or frighten him (anything in the gadget line, for instance, was taboo), his parents chose a dainty and innocent trifle—a basket with ten different fruit jellies in ten little jars.

The Fault in Our Stars

If you are a fan of John Green's The Fault is Our Stars, you are impatiently waiting for the movie. Watch the press conference with the cast and the writer:

Part Two

Happy 450th Birthday, Shakespeare!

http://www.shakespearesbirthday.org.uk

Shakespeare's biography: http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.html

Short Short Stories

The shortest story ever told was written by a young Ernest Hemingway on a napkin. Hemingway claimed that he could write a complete story in six words. His colleagues each bet 10$ against the claim. Needless to say, he won:

                           For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

From: http://www.egodialogues.com/2012/the-shortest-story-ever-told/

Here's another very short story. A little longer than Hemingway's but it certainly doesn't lack in impact:

http://www.egodialogues.com/2013/a-short-short-story/

For more stories, click on the following link:

Fifty Word Short Stories