It has what he calls his "research, " the notes for a science fiction story he's writing.
Not a fiction story, but a marketing narrative that brings in business.
Underneath the science fiction, the story deals with a slightly dysfunctional family and their attempts to reconnect with one another.
The bookstore has also used its printing press to hold a short story fiction contest, picking 42 of the best entries and publishing them in its own book.
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That story was fiction, but Murdoch put the world on notice that he is not done: "With this saga finally concluded, we will return with renewed vigor and sharpened focus to maximizing our worldwide media businesses, " said a News Corp. statement announcing that it was withdrawing its bid for Hughes.
There are surges into science fiction (courtesy of a story that Chow is writing), but they seem no less anesthetized than the smoky world of his girlfriends.
On the side, he wrote fiction, including two short story collections and seven novels, which ranged from a coming-of-age story about a rebellious teenager who gets thrown out of school, to a book about a middle-age man who befriends a gangster to impress his son.
If Marwa's story were a work of fiction, it would probably end somewhere about here.
In its first incarnation, the story was a young-adult fiction by Michael Morpurgo written from the point of view of the horse, who turned out to have complex feelings and a decent prose style.
Originally posted online as a riff on the Twilight fan-fiction series Masters of the Universe, the story soon got picked up as an eBook, spawned two sequels and sold over a quarter of a million copies online.
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Trying to make my fiction "real" radically shrank the field of plausible story scenarios.
He wrote fan fiction and went on to write his own 200-page fantasy story.
With Argo, Affleck has delved into a true story that seems so far-fetched that it plays like Hollywood fiction.
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Fan fiction grew popular in the 1960s thanks to "Star Trek" as fans developed their own story lines to swap with other devotees.
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Annie Proulx has said that fan fiction inspired by her "Brokeback Mountain" is written by people who don't understand either the original story or intellectual property rights.
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