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· The following version of this story was used to create this lesson plan: Gordimer, Nadine. “Once Upon A Time.” Jump and Other Stories. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 1991. Pp. 23-30.

· The story opens with the narrator explaining that someone had written to her requesting she write a short story for children.

· The narrator replied that she does not write children’s stories.

· She receives a response to her letter stating that someone recently said that “every writer ought to write at least one story for children” (23).

· That night the narrator is stirred from sleep when she hears a creaking sound.

· The narrator notes that a woman who lived just a few blocks away had been murdered in her house the year before.

· A widower was strangled by a disgruntled employee who first stabbed his guard dogs.

· The narrator lay in bed noting every subtle sound, “Identifying and classifying...

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