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Ernest Hemingway’s psychological short story Hills Like White Elephants was first published in August 1927, in the literary magazine Transition then later in the 1927 short story collection Men Without Women. In this shorts story young…
The most famous and as well most anthologized William Faulkner’s psychological short story A Rose For Emily evokes the terms Southern gothic and grotesque. It is full of dark images – a decaying mansion, a…
This psychological short story from Virgina Woolf is often used as an example of introspective writing. It is written in the first person. The narrator notices a mark on the wall and this simple element…
This short story is about morale dilema. Those people (in our case chicken) who will not do hard things, when they ought to, have usually the hardest times in the end. It was some time…
This is a powerful story of sorrow from Stephen Crane. The story can operate on at least two levels; as a simple story about a dog, a child and crushing cruelty. It may also be interpreted…
This psychological short story was first published in The Century in 1882. This story’s title has become an allegorical expression meaning an unsolvable problem. In the very olden time, there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas,…