It is an American story, if not a happy one.

Our time to write a new chapter in the American story.

Indeed, it is the very essence of the American story.

In your opinion, then, there don't seem to be contemporary American stories coming out of that kind.

That obscure moment began a classic American story of law and change.

"Tonight we come together to write a new chapter in the American story," he declared.

But (to quote a very able writer of American short stories) that is another story.

What do you think of the current state of the American short story?

Flanagan herself later called it "one of the great American short stories."

These same characters come from traditional native American stories and myths.