Word: fictions
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...Have you ever written fiction...
THOUGH THE TROUBLED MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS OF Wales and Prince Charles has been the subject of intense scrutiny by the world's media, the gaudy theater accompanying it often complicates the task of discerning fact from fiction. In Britain especially, dailies, television and books feed the public's seemingly insatiable appetite for news of the secretive House of Windsor with the barest scraps of private information...
...difficult to make a transition from poetry to fiction...
...values include squatting and kidnapping. The new nation may have been led by paragons like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson; Cooper's characters were the nation they led. It is our first group self-portrait, and not an altogether flattering one. The man whose knack for heroics made realistic fiction in America all but impossible also showed how it could be done...
...least, the 2 million Indians and Eskimos in the U.S. have had more autonomy -- and have had it longer -- than their Canadian or Latin * American counterparts; in 1831 the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the tribes were "domestic dependent nations" entitled to limited self-government. That status was largely fiction for the next 140 years, however; not until 25 years ago did an Indian-rights movement begin agitating to claim what had been guaranteed. Since then the movement has scored some notable gains...