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What does “blanquillo” mean where? And why? In Bolivia, Chile, and Peru “blanquillo” means “white peach”. In the Caribbean and Southern Corn […]

This is part of our Review of The Open Boat & Other Stories. Summary One of two stories based on the ill-fated […]

This is part of our Review of The Open Boat & Other Stories. Short Summary A boy works the merry go round; […]

This is part of our Review of The Open Boat & Other Stories. Quick Summary “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”: A […]

Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat & Other Stories” is a story collection published in 1898, when the author was 27, two years […]

Impressions & Analysis Story Response: Another Cotter Story . Project Gutenberg has free ebooks of Dubliners . Joyce wrote “The Sisters” in […]

Introductory Remarks & The Original Story Story Response: Survivor Three men clamor from a sinking ship onto a lifeboat. They are known […]

This story is available for free as part of a story collection at Project Gutenberg: The Open Boat & Other Stories Introductory […]

Language is simple and straight-forward. Scenery, external and internal sensations, hopes and fears: all descriptions flow along together. Voice is omniscient narrator […]

[We also wrote a response-story: Another Cotter Story] “The Sisters” is the first story in James Joyce’s story collection Dubliners (published 1914; […]