Short Story Essay Examples

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Creative Short Story – Going to the Movie (303 words, 1 pages)

You look really tense, are you okay? Julia teased.Yeah, this is my first time driving by myself. Kayla stammered.I was nervous my first time too. Youll get used to it though. she replied.Kayla screamed, I think I just ran over someone!No Kayla, it was just a pothole. Julia declared, You ... Read More

An Analysis of the Scarlet Ibis, a Short Story by James Hurst (438 words, 2 pages)

Since Doodle was born, he has not been able to walk. Doodle has always been different and stood out from all the other kids his age. The Scarlet Ibis, a short story by James Hurst, Doodle has many good traits such as happiness and endurance despite his disabilities. Doodle may ... Read More

Short Story About a Kidnapped Girl (1521 words, 4 pages)

Have you ever had the feeling your heart was going to jump out of your chest. So scared your face is flushed red. A tingling feeling that moves through the whole body. Heart sinking and beating so fast. Fast enough to feel it through my fingers. I'm only feeling this ... Read More

Outline for Short Story (581 words, 2 pages)

Asia Xiong was one who liked to keep to herself, she disliked the constant pointless disputes of people and she was one who cherished her friends. she was one to sacrifice her happiness just to see a smile on anothers face. she was also a very strong girl but unfortunately ... Read More

Analyzation of Fear in a Short Story (925 words, 2 pages)

The story begins with the title Im not scared but it is all about being scared of the boy who is named Michele. He is really scared and it is true. However he knows how to overcome his fear and always does the right thing and becomes a good boy. ... Read More

Creative Short Story (261 words, 2 pages)

It was a bright Saturday morning in London. These were the kind of mornings the young boy preferred. It made him feel optimistic in every way. Saturday was his favourite day of week because he and his father went into town to pick up a few things. After they finished ... Read More

A Little Girl with Cancer – Creative Short Story (713 words, 1 pages)

Beep Beep Beeeep. That was all I heard in my hospital room. My name is Aubrey. Im six and I was diagnosed with cancer when I was five. I have blue eyes as sparkly as the sea and no hair on my bald, yet shiny head. My mom says I ... Read More

Analysis of a Short Story (704 words, 1 pages)

I am literary iluminary, my role is basically to pick out 4-5 parts that I think were my favourite parts, or what really stuck out the most to me. One of my favourite parts was when Christopher ran away from Swindon to London. Christopher ran away to his mother because ... Read More

A Review of the Short Story Night of the Twister (325 words, 1 pages)

In the short story, Night of the Twister by James Michael Ullman, the main character Karen Smallwood is an intelligent teacher who was raised by a lawman. She saves her life with clever and quick thinking in the midst of a very dangerous situation. Karen stays calm and cooperates with ... Read More

Creative Short Story about a Visitor (411 words, 1 pages)

Olivia barged inside the house slamming the door behind her. Her things plummeted to the hardwood floor as she let go of them. Angrily, she slammed her Michael Kors earrings onto the little black lacquer table in the corner. Katherine, Olivias mother, was in the kitchen cooking dinner when she ... Read More

Short Story Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood (4434 words, 16 pages)

It happened this way. She knew that it had, though she could barely remember the way it felt. They all knew, though they never discussed it openly when they got together for holidays and the occasional sisters' spa get away, because lives are not so easily disassembled as all that. ... Read More

Short Story About a Boy Called James (756 words, 1 pages)

During World War II, there was a young orphan boy named James. He hadaged out of the orphanage three weeks ago on his seventeenth birthday.He hadn't been able to find a house or job, so he had been living on thestreets for the past few weeks. The creed his father ... Read More

Creative Short Story about Playing Music (489 words, 2 pages)

The air came in cold wisps. It was not surprising to see a student sitting on the roof of the science room. Some used the roof to sulk others used it to reflect their day. Only once or twice was it ever used to save the world. It once had ... Read More

Analyzing Coraghessan Boyle’s Short Story Greasy Lake (1268 words, 4 pages)

There are three things that all good short stories need to have in common. First all of the elements in the story must relate to the central idea. Second the situation in the story must be plausible. Thirdly, the story stays fresh. In other words there are new incites while ... Read More

Short Story about a Lost Friend (1259 words, 4 pages)

He wasnt there anymore, not truly. Jonathan just wasnt the same when he got back from war. He still loved watching the occasional Batman or Spiderman movie, and loved hearing Giada Di Laurentiis explain her way to make perfect italian pasta. But still he was quieter. Jon was standing there, ... Read More

Creative Short Story about Vietnam War (2361 words, 4 pages)

Guards lift Lt. John McGuire from the mud, to stand on shaky legs. They push him in front of a Vietcong officer, as he screams at him in a language John doesnt understand. The officers face is several inches from Johns face, so close spittle flies from his mouth to ... Read More

Creative Short Story about a Little Girl (892 words, 3 pages)

Hala is six years old, she took paper and pencil to draw, she said I am going to draw Saudi and America. She started drawing and she decided to begin with Saudi. She draw cat sitting on the top of thing that I thought it is building. Hala said, There ... Read More

Analyzing Stephen Crane’s Short Story A Mystery of Heroism (926 words, 4 pages)

As result of disease, combat, accident, and starvation, approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Many soldiers fought and died in the civil war, some blood was spilled carelessly, and we lost many lives. Writers in, and after, this time period wrote about the casual bloodshed and used things ... Read More

An Analysis of Stylistic Devices Used in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Short Story The Lynching of Jube Benson (2286 words, 8 pages)

The short story, The Lynching of Jube Benson by African American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar, is set in the southern part of the United States during the 1900s, during the post-emancipation of black slaves. According to the story it would seem that the lynching was racially motivated. Lynching was common ... Read More

Short Story About Losing Someone (517 words, 2 pages)

Just yesterday, I decided to re-explore my Playlist on YouTube for a great tune to listen to while baking Wildberry Jam Pastries with my grandmother. One of my Playlist songs, however, caught my attention and immediately led me to reminisce about one of the most life-changing moments in my life. ... Read More

Short Story of Losing Someone Special (895 words, 3 pages)

Leave me out with the waste," Oh no! Don't play that song again! "This is not what I do Its the wrong kind of place.""Would you turn that radio down please," I yell to the waitress. "What?" She stares at me. "Lower the volume!" She returns back to the kitchen, ... Read More

Short Story About a Girl who Runs Away (7766 words, 23 pages)

When Kelana Star streak was eight she had a run-in with Count Spankulot for not finishing her dinner and getting into an argument with her dad about it. He and his wife were trying to get her eat the gross broccoli, spinach and peas soup. He said, Kelana, sweetheart, you ... Read More

Creative Short Story about Becoming a Leader (757 words, 2 pages)

He could sense it. Those shallow eyes were still following him. Gathering pace and inching closer. The hands stretching out to reach him. "This is disgusting", he told himself. "Ah! There it is, my rescue point."He entered the huge building named The Spencers. "Phew! Now where to find those people, ... Read More

Creative Short Story about Loss (457 words, 2 pages)

Broke and in desperate need of money, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I tried working odd and in jobs, but I could never get hired full-time. My resume was immaculate and I had an ample amount of short-hand work experience, but I was horrendous at interviews. ... Read More

Short Story of an Action Scene (1035 words, 3 pages)

My eyes fluttered open I peered around the dark filthy room where I had awoken and realised I was no longer with my old mate. I winced as I looked down at my grotesquely beaten and bruised body. A searing pain began to intensify in my head as the rusted ... Read More

Short Story About a Crayon (191 words, 1 pages)

IamacolorcrayonnoonewouldusemeIwasanuglygreenTheywoulduseprettypinkandblueinsteadIfelloutofStacysdeskthatnightandinthemorningsomebodysteppedonmeandsmearedmeallovertheFloorandthentheteachersawitandSandygotintroubletherewasonlyhaveleftofmesoshetrewmeinthegarbagwellitwaskindoffuncausetherewasabrowncrayonrightthenwefellinlovesothreedayslaterIwasMrsBrownhegavemealifesaverforaweddingringIhavehimonetoothenaweeklaterwehadalittlebabyGirlwenamedherStacyThenthatnighttheganeturcametotakethegarbagcanoutwhatarelifcausepeoplewerespittinggumoutandaboutgotonusthenwhenhewasgoingtopickitupwefelloutandwelivedinthecornerofadeskforseveralyearswestilldoandthebrownfamilylivedhappilyeverafter.Theend.... Read More

An Analysis of Franz Kafka’s Short Story The Metamorphosis (745 words, 2 pages)

Kafka wrote in his diary "I am living with my family, the dearest people, and yet I am more estranged from them than from a stranger." In this short story The Metamorphosis, Kafka uses the Gregor Samsa and his family to show that sometimes families dont have your best interest ... Read More

Creative Short Story about Going on A Journey (5368 words, 11 pages)

A postmetaphysical world whispers in the wheel of an unscathed world. Before this disclosure, a gradual shift in paradigm has condescendingly occurred with no strains, no walls, and no overcoming of schematism have been conceived. A total submarine warfare has just break from the south. On the hither side of ... Read More

Creative Short Story about Halloween (1429 words, 2 pages)

On a warm but windy night of October 31st , boys and girls knocked onthe Johnson's door but she never ever opened the door to any kids. Whowhere even fundraisers but she was the strictest since her son movedaway from home to his own house because he thought that his ... Read More

Creative Short Story about Love (1043 words, 2 pages)

As the sky pulled its black veil of twinkling starts over the sea of blue fluffy clouds, the fiery disk replaced with a peaceful golden ball. The warm nights breeze drifted past my face blowing my soft black hair behind my shoulders. My thoughts whizzed in a whirl of confusion ... Read More