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4 Great Short Stories That'll Make You Weep

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Top 10 contemporary short stories

She gives workshops at places like Universal McCann and Facebook, companies that reckon good storytelling is good communication, and good communication is business. She has taught, by her own count, thousands of students to date. And now, with Long Story Short hitting shelves and screens everywhere, Leitman shares with Fast Company a few key lessons on storytelling from her book.

But in storytelling, people want to root for an underdog. Storytelling is not pitching. But when Obama readily admitted to smoking in his youth, people commended his honesty and moved on.

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You should have a polished story or two in your repertoire. What did you believe was impossible that now suddenly you can do? Stories can be about very small stuff, so long as the emotions involved are big.

Leitman tells a story about wandering into a Whole Foods in the midst of a personal medical nightmare. Have you ever been at a wedding and heard one of the toast-givers drone on and on, without focus? It might have something to with the fact that life itself is noisy; we drift around, we have trouble finding the thread. Leitman herself somehow always had the lesson internalized, she says, telling about the page journal entry she wrote about losing her virginity.

She wrote about all the hours before the event, and everything after.

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Think Outside The Inbox Get the important stories, told nowhere else. Long forgotten by most, author Colum McCann miraculously resurrected it for The New Yorker 's fiction podcast, and it is best experienced in his wonderful voice. Your subscription has been updated! Don't just catch up. Loading comments… Trouble loading? This curious, masterful story is about a set of brothers who work as managing engineers overseeing the Chernobyl power station on April 26, , but, as with most of Shepard's work, it's also about the invisible planets of loss that our personal lives orbit. You should have a polished story or two in your repertoire.

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