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    "May Day" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in The Smart Set in the July 1920 issue. The story was included in his 1922 short story collection...
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    A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents...
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    nochi) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, originally published in 1848, early in the writer's career. Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights"...
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  • "The Veldt" is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as "The World the Children Made" in the September 23...
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  • Kabuliwala, is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892, during Tagore's "Sadhana" period (named for one of Tagore's magazines) from...
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    A short story collection is a book of short stories and/or novellas by a single author. A short story collection is distinguished from an anthology of...
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    May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's...
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  • One Rainy Day in May is an American novel by writer Mark Z. Danielewski. Released on May 12, 2015, it is the first of a planned 27-volume story entitled...
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  • "May Day Eve" is a story written by Filipino National Artist Nick Joaquin. Written after World War II, it became one of Joaquin's “signature stories”...
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  • Astrologer's Day is a thriller, suspense short story by author R. K. Narayan. While it had been published earlier, it was the titular story of Narayan's...
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    "The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales...
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  • Stories of Music and Nightfall is a 2009 collection of short fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro. After six novels, it is Ishiguro's first collection of short stories...
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  • "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American...
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  • "The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is by far the longest story in the collection and, at 15,952 words...
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  • "The Killers" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1927 and later republished in Men Without Women, Snows of...
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    "Berenice" is a short horror story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story is narrated by...
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  • "Knock" is a science fiction short story by American writer Fredric Brown. It begins with a piece of Flash fiction based on the following passage by Thomas...
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  • "All Summer in a Day" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in March 1954 for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science...
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    "Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult...
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    "short short story" and was associated with Cosmopolitan magazine; and in the 1930s, collected in anthologies such as The American Short Short Story....
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  • The Refugees is a 2017 short story collection by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is Nguyen's first published short story collection and his first book after winning...
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    International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working...
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    1895 short story by Leo Tolstoy. In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreyevich Brekhunov takes one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey...
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  • "Skin" is a macabre short story written by author Roald Dahl. It was first published in the May 17, 1952 issue of The New Yorker, and was later featured...
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  • "The Nose" (Russian: Нос, romanized: Nos) is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time...
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  • season of the American horror anthology television series American Horror Story, subtitled Delicate, is based on Danielle Valentine's book, Delicate Condition...
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  • "Miriam" is a short story written by Truman Capote. It was originally published in the June 1945 issue of Mademoiselle. "Miriam" was one of Capote's first...
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    Arirang News Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rŭngnado Stadium. Rungnado May Day Stadium 360 degree panorama Rungnado May Day Stadium view from above...
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  • is a darkly humorous short story by Stephen King. It was first published in Cavalier magazine in May 1976. On Independence Day, a backwoods hick farmer...
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  • a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. The stories are about men who have...
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