Showing results for "The Interview" in Literature & Fiction

Convinced your house is haunted…

Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story "In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People" is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all.

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Ossie and Baxter are on a mission. They've been sent to conduct a membership interview with Yancey Allyson, the latest applicant to The Society of Super Powered Heroes. But what will they do when they discover that Mr. Allyson is a little bit...unorthodox?

Journalist Max Fegemann von der Zeitung "Fairy Tale News Daily" will den neuen Schlossverwalter kennenlernen. Ein Interview soll Gelegenheit dazu geben, so viel wie möglich über das märchenhafte Dornröschen-Schloss und denjenigen, der es hegt und pflegt, herauszufinden, um im Anschluss einen Artikel für seine Leser in der Zeitung zu veröffentlichen.

In this provocative and immensely irritating comic play, the Sphinx from ancient Greece is interviewed in modern times as though she were a celebrity pop star. The problem is she never answers any questions—never directly, anyway. Instead, she prefers just dishing the dirt on everybody. Bit by bit, the interviewer learns that what happens in Greek legend didn’t happen exactly the way Sophocles described it. Fortunately, the Sphinx offers the interviewer another riddle; if only he could figure out what exactly it is!

The Desert Living Retirement Community is located smack dab in the middle of the Southern California desert, surrounded by windmills. Within this retirement community is a quaint little coffee shop running on a budget. Join the retirees in this quirky and comical short story as they spend their day drinking coffee and gossiping.

Weihnachtsgeschichten und -gedichte von Erich Kästner: ein herzerwärmendes Hörbuch rund um rauschebärtige Langfinger, geschenklose Ehemänner, das Problem der Bescherungsgerechtigkeit und die wiederkehrende Erfahrung, dass am Ende des Jahres zuverlässig eine schöne Bescherung droht. "Es hatte schon wieder geklingelt. Das neunte Mal im Verlauf der letzten Stunde! Heute hatten, schien es, die Liebhaber von Klingelknöpfen Ausgang. Mürrisch trollte ich mich türwärts und öffnete. Wer, glauben Sie, stand draußen? Sankt Nikolaus persönlich!

In our bureaucratized culture, we’re inundated by documents: itineraries, instruction manuals, permit forms, primers, letters of complaint, end-of-year reports, accidentally forwarded email, traffic updates, ad infinitum. David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, both writers and professors, have gathered 40 short fictions that they’ve found to be seriously hilarious and irresistibly teachable (in both writing and literature courses): counterfeit texts that capture the barely suppressed frustration and yearning that percolate just below the surface of most official documents.