The rope of a lie is short.
Nights of pleasure are short.
The path of a liar is short.
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders...
You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts.
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
Short Round: Wow! Holy Smoke! Crash landing! Indiana Jones: Short Round, step on it. Short Round: Okey dokey, Dr. Jones. [turns his cap around] Short Round: Hold on to your potatoes! Willie: For crying out loud, there's a *kid* driving the car! India...
Indiana Jones: Stay behind me, Short Round. Step where I step, and don't touch anything. [curious, Short Round touches a lamp. A door falls open, with two dessicated mummies falling out. Short Round yells and backpedals] Short Round: I step where you...
A lie has short legs.
A lover's anger is short-lived.
One short step lengthens life.
Short love, long sighs.
Short term memory is not good.
Time is long but life is short.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely.
