Sentence examples for realized stories from inspiring English sources

But both these and the five other pieces in "Prose" seem more like efforts at resistance to traditional narrative forms than fully realized stories.

What follows — a sweeping, birth-to-death biography charting Victor's bedeviled return to civilization — is among the most richly realized stories of Boyle's nearly 40-year adventure with the form.

About which Tim McLoughlin, editor of Akashic Books's "Brooklyn Noir" series and our official contest judge, wrote: Many of these pieces were excellent, and quite a few stood on their own as complete works of flash fiction, wholly realized stories.

Inserting his own style of dark subversive comedy onto what were previously innocent children's stories, Gackley didn't just make the covers, he actually wrote fully realized stories for titles including Can You Still Breathe, Grandma?, The Butt Ventriloquist, and Time To Feed The Piranha, although sadly, none of them were ever published.

"Thrilled to Death," by contrast, is a rich, fully realized story that holds up on its own.

Seth Kantner's first novel, ORDINARY WOLVES (Milkweed, $22), is a magnificently realized story about a boy's coming-of-age in a difficult, distant place.

It's easy to see why, given writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood's unique and authentically realized story of a couple (Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps) falling in and out of love while trying to reach their separate dreams of basketball stardom.

And the filmmakers' focus on young Krystal isn't enough to make the project feel as if it tells a fully realized story.

It's one of those movies with a stellar cast – Kevin Bacon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Fiorentino, John Malkovich, Joe Mantegna, Tony Spiridakis, Tom Waits, Chloe Webb and Ken Olin – that never quite comes together as a fully realized story.

The author of a well-received previous collection, "Fitting Ends and Other Stories," Chaon occasionally produces work that feels more like sketches than fully realized short stories, but most of his book hums with life and wry humor.

All of the characters have deeply realized back stories, ambitions and pains.