Short stories.

* The Monologue Man ( played by Chris Morris ): Short stories, often up to 10 minutes in length, written from the perspective of a lonely and socially inept man.

For this reason, stories about earthquakes generally begin with the disaster and focus on its immediate aftermath, as in Short Walk to Daylight ( 1972 ), The Ragged Edge ( 1968 ) or Aftershock: Earthquake in New York ( 1998 ).

Category: Short stories by Larry Niven

Category: Short stories by J. D. Salinger

Category: Short stories by J. R. R. Tolkien

Short story in which archaeologists from Earth ( returning to the Mars of their distant ancestors ; see Genesis above, although the stories are not explicitly related save through the author's Paratime stories ), excavating the remains of a humanoid Martian civilization find an entire library they at first cannot read, but then come upon a Rosetta Stone of sorts, giving the story its title.

Short stories tend to be less complex than novels.

Short stories date back to oral story-telling traditions which originally produced epics such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Short stories by Virginia Woolf are " Kew Gardens " ( 1919 ) and " Solid Objects ," about a politician with mental problems.

In the same year, Waits lent his vocals to Gavin Bryars ' 75-minute reworking of his 1971 classical music piece Jesus ' Blood Never Failed Me Yet ; appeared in Robert Altman's film version of Raymond Carver's stories Short Cuts and Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, a short black-and-white movie with Iggy Pop ; and his third child, Sullivan, was born.

Category: Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Category: Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Category: Short stories by Arthur C. Clarke

Category: Short stories adapted into films

* The Earth Turns Quietly (" Kloden dreier stille rundt ", Short stories, 1980 )

Category: Short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

Category: Short stories by O. Henry

Category: Short stories adapted into films

Altman directed Short Cuts ( 1993 ), an ambitious adaptation of several short stories by Raymond Carver, which portrayed the lives of various citizens of Los Angeles over the course of several days.

Category: Short stories by Robert A. Heinlein

Category: Short stories by Robert A. Heinlein

* Short bones are roughly cube-shaped, and have only a thin layer of compact bone surrounding a spongy interior.

Short and rather inexplicit passages concerning religious images, were to have great impact on the development of Catholic art.

Short verse dialogues between Death and each of its victims, which could have been performed as plays, can be found in the direct aftermath of the Black Death in Germany ( where it was known as the Totentanz, and in Spain as la Danza de la Muerte ).

Former ministers such as Clare Short and Chris Smith have criticised the lack of decision-making power in Cabinet.

Professor Francesco Cappuccio said, " Short sleep has been shown to be a risk factor for weight gain, hypertension, and Type 2 diabetes, sometimes leading to mortality ; but in contrast to the short sleep-mortality association, it appears that no potential mechanisms by which long sleep could be associated with increased mortality have yet been investigated.

Since Phase 2, there have been no changes to the Short Message operation packages in MAP, although other operation packages have been enhanced to support CAMEL SMS control.

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Slessor believed that had the air force been forced to choose among the three British bombers under development in the late 1930s — the Avro Manchester, Short Stirling, and Handley Page Halifax — it would have chosen the wrong one.

* Pepin the Short defeats the Lombards of northern Italy, who have threatened Pope Stephen II.

Based on native testimony and archaeological research, he claimed the island was originally colonized by Hanau eepe (" Long Ears "), from South America, and that Polynesians Hanau momoko (" Short Ears ") arrived only in the mid-16th century ; they may have come independently or perhaps were imported as workers.

The Short Service, an unpretentious setting of items for the Anglican Matins, Communion and Evensong services, which seems to designed to comply with the Protestant reformers ’ demand for clear words and simple musical textures, may well have been composed during the Lincoln years.

Short periods for stream ciphers have been a practical concern.

The far West End ( Innsbrook and Short Pump ) and almost all of Chesterfield County have no public transportation despite dense housing, retail, and office development.

Although it was acknowledged as a continuation of their old work, albeit with an increased use of synthesisers, Sam Spies of the Richmond Times-Dispatch noted that " the experiments in style that made Cake fun to listen to have all but disappeared from ' Pressure Chief ' ... What's left is mostly uninspired, so-called alternative rock ", and Graeme Hammond of the Sunday Herald Sun wrote that " the melodies are listless, the album bereft of anything with the verve of Short Skirt / Long Jacket or Comfort Eagle ".

He wrote: Manifesto summario para os que ignoram poderse navegar pelo elemento do ar ( Short Manifesto for those who are unaware that is possible to sail through the element air, 1709 ); and Varios modos de esgotar sem gente as naus que fazem agua ( Several ways of draining, without people, ships that leak water, 1710 ); some of his sermons also have been printed.

Short track racing skates have a longer overall height to the blade to allow for deep edge turns without the boot contacting the ice.

He wrote, " Short on suspense, routine in its action and monotonous in its performances, this movie opened yesterday without benefit of press screenings, usually a sign that the distributors have detected cinematic rigor mortis before audiences formally withdraw such life support systems as tickets, popcorn and the glucose drip of spilled Coke.

Short shoots have very short internodes ( so they may grow only one or two centimeters in several years ) and their leaves are usually unlobed.

Short buying at a table, winning and then cashing out only to short buy right back in again would generally be an impractical strategy in live games with long waiting lists, but the situation is different in online games where players sometimes have immediate access to a table.

Also, The Sandman and its spin-offs have won 26 Eisner Awards, including three for Best Continuing Series, one for Best Short Story, four for Best Writer ( Neil Gaiman ), seven for Best Lettering ( Todd Klein ), and two for Best Penciller / Inker ( one each for Charles Vess and P. Craig Russell ).

Short toll roads with no intermediate entries or exits may have only one toll plaza at one end, with motorists traveling in either direction paying a flat fee either when they enter or when they exit the toll road.

Competitors have to sit for three papers: the Short Answer test consisting of twenty questions ; the Individual Power Test which spans three hours and comprises five questions ; and the Team Test.

In " Toads Of The Short Forest " ( from the album Weasels Ripped My Flesh ), composer Frank Zappa explains: " At this very moment on stage we have drummer A playing in 7 / 8, drummer B playing in 3 / 4, the bass playing in 3 / 4, the organ playing in 5 / 8, the tambourine playing in 3 / 4, and the alto sax blowing his nose " ( Mothers of Invention 1970 ).