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fiction: see novel novel, in modern literary usage, a sustained work of prose fiction a volume or more in length. It is distinguished from the short story and the fictional sketch, which are necessarily brief. ..... Click the link for more information. ; short story short story, brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's ..... Click the link for more information. . fiction 1. literary works invented by the imagination, such as novels or short stories 2. Law something assumed to be true for the sake of convenience, though probably false How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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6 trillion by compiling real and fictionally projected budgetary appropriations that include lifetime healthcare costs, interest payments on debt, imagined costs of an eventual demobilization, economic opportunity costs of civilian wages lost to people enlisting in the military, depreciation of military equipment, the imputed value of lost human lives (assessed at $6 million per human being), the price of oil, the "macroeconomic effects" of the price of oil, and so forth. Other shows that are made in the city include HBO's ``Big Love,'' which is fictionally set in Salt Lake City, the HBO western series ``Deadwood'' and the CBS show ``NCIS. In so doing, Hurston charts structures of gender inequality by turning her ethnographic gaze away from public forms of expression and toward forms of private expression that cannot be collected but must be extrapolated and fictionally created. |
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