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Creative Nonfiction Short Stories – Page 31 of 241
“That Old Thing” by Etya Krichmar
That Old Thing I neatly folded and put away that old thing into a drawer in my closet a long time ago. The old thing I refer to is my favorite red with the white polka dots dress. The white dots give it a character and make it look cheerful. I smile each time I look at them. My dress is still trendy today because of its ageless, classical style despite its vintage. ...
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“Dear me…” by Katie Reynolds
I opened the wood door and closed it again, taking off my shoes and making my way to the stairs. “I’m home”, I pointlessly yelled to the empty house as I proceeded to make my way up the staircase and to my room. I entered the rectangular box and sat at my desk and opened my backpack. I took out my school work and mulled over it for a bit before deciding that this was useless and I had zero motivation to complete...
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“They called it a near Miss” by Jennifer Braveheart
They called it a near miss, but I called it a direct hit as years of pent-up anger surged through my veins.
The porcelain coffee cup sailed through the air and smashed directly where I was aiming it; just next to my husband's head. He had been quietly reading the Desert Sun Newspaper while he sat on the barstool in our breakfast nook. It shattered with a loud bang against the wall. I had made my point. He recoil...
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“FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST DO IT” by Brandi Yetzer
WARNING: domestic abuse theme, and a few cuss words.If he says he won’t do it again, don’t believe him.I scroll the letters across the top of the page, biting my fingernail down until the sensitive skin is burning for me to stop. I look down at it and let out an ‘oops’ in surprise. I wipe the small bead of blood on my blue jeans.My attention moves back to the page, and I realize I haven’t addressed the letter to my future self yet. If I’m going to do it, I may as well do .
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“Curse of more” by Scott Skinner
One.I’m glad you asked. It was Ashton Kutcher in the movie Spread. They were black combat boots, loosely laced. He wore them with cuffed jeans, a striped shirt, thin black suspenders, and a green flight jacket. The washed denim jeans had the perfect amount of colorful paint drops to blur the line between an actual artist’s clothes and high fashion clothing. There was a glossy black Mercedes G Wagon. He stepped out of it, and my life changed. I studied him. I believed that dressing like Ashton Kutcher in this movie would ...
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“The Bet” by Kelsie Bolton
His eyes opening, a yawn escaping him as he stretches his arms.
Sitting up he pulls the blanket off of him. Swinging his legs off the bed he walks off down the hallway. Rubbing his eyes another yawn escapes him. Opening the bathroom door he lets his hand fall from his eye, he looks up. His eyes catch his own in the the mirror. He freezes. A sleek black dress clings to his body not leaving much to the imagination. A slit ...
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“The Diary of an Invisible Man,” by Eric Falvey
*TW Profanity*I had never imagined my life like this. Looking around in an overstuffed storage locker at the odd collection of things that had represented my journey. No, pictures, no accolades, nothing to suggest that I had even existed. At 32 years old, every artifact in my life was a lifeless piece of junk. Just another meaningless entry into the diary of an invisible man.This was never my intention. There once was a time where many around me would have imagined that I would excel socially, and wind .
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“Butterfly Love” by Virginia Coleman
Dear mom, I know it is a parent's instinct to turn all their child's flaws into loveable traits. But after washing and mending my overalls for the 5th time that week you had to finally admit, I was troublesome. The beautiful Saturday afternoon sun was filtering through the tree behind our house into my bedroom. I hated being grounded. It wasn't even my fault! Those boys had paid me five bucks to climb that ...
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“I am The Crow” by Kevin Marlow
{The names of the guilty have been changed to protect them from the innocent.}Brandon Lee was dead. An accident they said. Having been around guns since I was old enough to point my finger and say POW! I wasn't sure I believed it.
A loaded gun is that, loaded. A live round is an ominous thing to hold. It vibrates with the confined kinetic energy it contains. The graceful flow of the trigger sear releasing the firing pin feels like poetry until the powder ignites. BANG! One has to train themselves not to flinch and pull o...
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“Free at Last” by Rochelle Miller
"Let's go to the dining room. I think dinner is about to be served." We walked together to another building, just across the lawn. "I'm sorry there are only little kids here this evening. The older kids will be back later; they're at the Oakland A's game right now. You'll meet them all when they return." The lady welcoming me to the shelter was nice. The officer who took...
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“A turtleneck and A Lifetime of Firsts” by Blaire Miracle
There are so many firsts we experience throughout our lives.
Straight out of the womb, I had my first first; I was my parent’s first baby, I was a first grandchild, a first cousin and I was the First born, of four girls. As the first born, my clothes became “hand me downs” for my little sisters. My clothes were mostly “hand me downs” from my older cousins. As a toddler, I had this rainbow turtleneck that I practically lived in. I refused to pass it to my sisters, and even when it became too small, I would wear it like a bikini top. My rai...
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“Reapers!!” by John Wilson
I stepped over the mossy log and continued down the hill. The forest was cool, unlike the city, dirty, and full of the smell of dead corpses. The smell of the woods was different, it was fresh, clear, not musty. I spent most of my time in the woods now, staying away from the city as much as possible. The site of the corpses scattered across the city filled me with, anger.
None of those people had done an...
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“Just a pair of flip flops” by Hannah Cooper
I looked down at my bright pink flipflops as the water laps over my toes. In the distance I can hear my brother and dad talking about different types of fish. The sound of their fishing poles being cast out onto the lake. My younger sister playing in the water in-front of me. I couldn't have been older than ten years old.Dad always took us to the lake during the summer. Our weekends with him were free of electronics and full of bonfires. Roasting marshmallows and camping in the RV on hot summer nights. At that age you never think a...
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“The Uniform” by George [email protected]
In life we shared a name, he was senior and I was junior, but the commonality ended there.
As a born storyteller, he would freely incorporate fiction, so you were never quite sure where the truth began and the story was sprinkled in. There were also some things he guarded with his silence. When he passed away at the age of forty-seven, he took many of those guarded secrets with him. One of his ...
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“Dreams on meadows” by Marina Č.
It was sunny, the light wind was twisting the grasses on the meadows. Skinny little girl with ginger hair and the pale face covered by the spots was running through grass. Her skinny long fingers crossed the tops of the grass. She wore blue shorts, a washed white T-shirt with straps and she was completely barefoot. She did not smile, the expression of her face looked dull, without any feelings. Her blue eyes looked thoug...
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50 Great Narrative Nonfiction Books To Get On Your TBR List
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Narrative nonfiction—also known as creative nonfiction or literary nonfiction—is usually defined as nonfiction that uses the techniques and style of fiction (characters, plot, conflict, scene-setting) to tell a true story. Narrative nonfiction books can cover just about any topic, but if you pick one up you’re almost guaranteed to have a great reading experience.
This list a collection of 50 great narrative nonfiction books, although it easily could have been much longer. A few caveats: I tried not to include straight autobiographies or memoirs because I wanted to keep this list focused on books that highlight strong research/reporting along with narrative voice. I also included just one book from any given author. If you’ve already read the book I’ve listed, most of these writers have an extensive backlist to explore. And, of course, this list of narrative nonfiction isn’t nearly comprehensive—that’d be basically impossible.
Science
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee—An in-depth biography of cancer.
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande—Medicine, life, and choices about how we die.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot—History of the most prolific cells in science.
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly—African American female mathematicians and the race to space.
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach—The strange science used to get astronauts ready for space.
Leaving Orbit by Margaret Lazarus Dean—“Notes from the last days of American spaceflight”
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee—Four books collected into one giant work on the geological history of North America.
The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson—“How fishermen and scientists are unraveling the mysteries of our favorite crustacean.”
Global Issues
Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid—A portrait of Iraqi citizens “weathering the unexpected impact of America’s invasion and occupation.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo—Life in a Mumbai slum.
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder—One doctor’s work bringing medical care to those most in need.
Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim—A reporter goes inside a school for the sons of North Korea’s elite.
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick—North Korean defectors tell what it’s like inside the country.
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi—Reading American classics in revolutionary Iran.
The Secretary by Kim Ghattas—An inside account of Hillary Clinton’s term as Secretary of State by a traveling journalist.
The Lonely War by Nazila Fathi—An Iranian journalist’s account of the struggle for reform in modern Iran.
History
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson—The great migration of African Americans to northern cities, and the impact it has today.
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand—World War II tale of survival after being shot down over the Pacific Ocean.
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown—Olympic rowing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (this book is amazing!).
Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott—Stories from America’s favorite Victorian-era brothel and the culture war it inspired.
Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman—Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland race around the world in 1889.
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson—America’s ambassador to Germany, and his headstrong daughter, in the lead up to World War II.
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann—A conspiracy against the Osage tribe, and the birth of the FBI.
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell—The Puritans and their strange journey to found America
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel—A look at the relationship between Galileo and his oldest daughter, a nun named Maria Celeste.
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport—A look at the fall of the Romanov family, focusing specifically on the lives of Nicholas and Alexandra’s four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia.
City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker—An account of Paris’s first police chief and a poisonous murder epidemic in the late 1600s.
Narrative Nonfiction Classics
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote—The original true crime nonfiction novel.
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean—Obsession and rare flowers in the Florida Everglades.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer—The story of a harrowing, deadly climb on Mount Everest.
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc—“Love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx.”
Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger—The big business of high school football in Texas.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion—Essays on a feminist journalist’s experiences in California in the 1960s.
Newjack by Ted Conover—A journalist goes undercover as a prison officer in Sing Sing to better understand the penal system.
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi—Historical true crime on Italy’s Jack the Ripper, who killed between 1968 and 1985.
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis—A sports biography on one man’s journey to the NFL and the evolution of the game.
Social Issues
Does Jesus Really Love Me? by Jeffrey Chu—A gay Christian looks for God in America.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman—Cultural barriers in life and medicine (so good!).
Evicted by Matthew Desmond—Poverty, profits and the eviction crisis in America.
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh—A sociologist spend a decade in Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes to better understand the lives of the urban poor.
Homicide by David Simon—A look at one year spent with homicide detectives in Baltimore.
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge—A journalist puts a human face on gun violence by writing about the 10 teenagers killed by guns on a single day in America.
Methland by Nick Reding—A look at the impact of meth on small towns, based on four years of reporting in an agricultural town in Iowa.
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts—The first and perhaps most comprehensive look at the AIDS crisis.
Contemporary Reporting
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett—“The true story of a thief, a detective, and a world of literary obsession.”
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer—A group of librarians banded together to pull of a literary heist to save precious Arabic texts from Al Qaeda.
Moby Duck by Donovan Hohn—“The true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists and fools, including the author, who went in search of them.”
Columbine by Dave Cullen—The definitive account of the Columbine shooting.
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink—Life and death and medical malpractice at a hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Tribe by Sebastian Junger—Learning about loyalty and belonging from tribal societies.
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Styles of the text - what are in Russian, examples in the literature (grade 4)
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Functional styles occupy a special place in the Russian language. This article discusses what styles of text are, what distinguishing features they have. The material will help in preparing for the Russian language lesson in grade 4.
The material was prepared jointly with the teacher of the highest category Kuchmina Nadezhda Vladimirovna.
Experience as a teacher of Russian language and literature - 27 years.
Definition
The functional style of the text is a kind of language-speech, characterized by a set of certain means used in a particular area of social activity. nine0009
It follows from the concept that styles depend on the function of the language. The same information can be said in different ways, as illustrated by these examples:
Baikal is a very deep lake. The depth of Baikal reaches 1642 m.
Styles are divided into bookish and colloquial. The table will show this division:
| Book | Spoken |
| Scientific | nine0011 |
| Publicist | |
| Formal business | |
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Book styles are implemented mainly in writing, and colloquial style - mainly in oral.
Scientific
Scientific style - a kind of language that functions in scientific fields. This type of text is used to convey scientific information. This is where the message function is implemented. nine0009
The primary form of the scientific style is written, the oral form is also used, but it becomes a consequence of the written transmission of information.
The scientific style is characterized by logic, objectivity, generalization, consistency and orderliness.
Publicist
Journalistic style is a kind of language that serves the sphere of public relations.
Journalistic style simultaneously implements two functions: messages and influences. This is due to the fact that the texts of the journalistic style are aimed at transmitting any information, most often presented in a short form, and also aimed at influencing others. nine0009
Expression and standard are implemented to a greater or lesser extent depending on the genre of the official business style text.
The distinctive features of this style are emotionality, evaluation, clarity.
Formal business
Official business style - a kind of language that serves official business relations between people, as well as government and public institutions.
Using the language of official papers and documents, the message function is implemented. nine0009
The following features are characteristic of the official business style: stereotyped design, stereotype, objectivity, accuracy. Most often, documents and other statements are non-personal.
Artistic
Artistic style is also distinguished in Russian. In another way, it is called the style of fiction.
Since features of other styles can function in works of art, the art style is considered the richest style. nine0009
Artistic style realizes the influencing and aesthetic functions. In this regard, this style is distinguished by emotionality and imagery.
Spoken
Conversational style is a kind of language that is implemented in an informal and everyday setting. This is what distinguishes this style.
The main function is the function of communication, since the conversational style helps the interlocutors to exchange information.
The features of the style are emotionality, spontaneity, situationality, informality, ease, non-codification, personal character, dialogue, use of non-verbal means of communication, as well as simple and incomplete sentences. nine0009
What have we learned?
Text styles are varieties of language, which are characterized by a set of linguistic means used in a particular area of social activity.
