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A short story. Jeffery a young married man, experiences guilty pleasure as a result of a forbidden affair outside of his marriage. This short story evolves around Jeffery’s thinking and reasoning for allowing the affair to occur in the first place. Even as his family falls apart and he moves on to his mistress, Jeffery learns that guilty pleasures, as a result of a forbidden affair, is a formula for unhappy endings in the long run.

A Rose for Emily explored the history and legend of the south while delving into the sensitive insight on the human character. It deals with how Emily, the main character, refused to accept change.

A reader loves to get their claws into a good book. The bigger the better because you never want a story to end. The world is full of big books; some brilliant, some good, some bad, and others that are just a waste if time.

Ernest Hemingway always said more with less. Instead of explicitly stating his meanings and reasons, he placed them subtly in his short fiction, as clues to be uncovered by astute reader-detectives.

I stood out in the cold, damp grass barefoot and felt the tendrils of mist curl around me. The lighthouse half a mile down the beach flashed through the fog every one and a half seconds exactly. Last year it was one of the last kerosene-lamp lighthouses still used on the east coast, but in May they changed it to electric bulbs after someone on a sailboat couldn’t see it and hit the rocks.

William Trevor’s collection of short stories ‘Cheating at Canasta’ reveals the subtle ways we sabotage our own prospects of happiness as well as those of others. This review explores the unfinished nature of Trevor’s ‘finished’ tales, where characters always seem to be finding ways to leave each other and even more subtly, themselves.

Dickens’ The Signalman must be one of the most enigmatic stories ever written and although students may find it difficult, they often come to recognise the art of its slipperiness! Heated debates can ensue as to who is actually haunting whom in the tale. It is a dramatically compelling way to show students the power of ambiguity in a narrative and makes students really look at a text to find the place(s) where it ‘means’ what it seems to signify.

Gather round my people, gather round. And hear the voices of your ancestors in this tale of courage and sacrifice. These are the words from a masterpiece of Ann Grifalconi titled, “The Village that Vanished.” Bravery and ingenuity flow from this exciting story of an entire village hiding from slavers, a story from the heart of Africa told by Ann Grifalconi, a great storyteller. It is an inspiring tale of three women’s’ courage and a village that refuses to die.

Achebe’s short story ‘What Has Literature Got to Do With It’ links literature to creation. It asks the pertinent question whether stories create people or people create stories. The work is an examination of the reversal of political and social order through the symbol of an animal story and examines the threat authority faces and the impending nature of transition in society.

Lou Champa lives in southern Ohio. His favorite sport was deer hunting. He wouldn’t miss the deer season for any reason. He usually buys several non-resident licenses so that he can hunt deer in as many states as possible. Late last fall, he hunted in northern Wisconsin, and that’s where this incident occurred.