title: Terrible Teresa and Other Very Short Stories
author:  Mittie Cuetara 
description: Kindergarten-Grade 3. Combine the originality of Jon Scieszka and the wit of Jack Prelutsky with Maira Kalman's style of illustration and you might come up with something like this clever book. The "short stories" are actually four-line verses, each line of which serves as a caption for the four cartoons drawn in comic-book style across a double-page spread. For example, "The Wild West" consists of the rhyme: "A cowboy on his favorite horse/fell into the prickly gorse./Some things he said were very coarse./Later on, he felt remorse." The well-drawn illustrations are full of zany details and make the meanings of unfamiliar words abundantly clear. Read aloud or alone, this book provides enjoyment for a wide audience. But it is more than that. It is a good model for classroom writing experiences and painlessly adds to readers' vocabularies. There is sure appeal here, especially for the "I don't like to read" crowd. An original, refreshing, and useful offering.?Marlene Gawron, Orange County Library, Orlando, FL<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  _In Victorian-era Arkham, Redemption Orne observes that art is indeed long and
  life only too short when a painter chooses Orne's wife Patience, mistress of
  the Outer Gods, for his model._
  
  
  _This short story was acquired and edited for Tor.com by assistant
  editor[Miriam
  Weinberg](https://www.tor.com/tags/Edited%20by%20Miriam%20Weinberg)._
  
  
  Paging through my daybooks, I find my eye stumbling again and again over the
  names of Patience’s victims. Not the random victims of her physical hunger (or
  the books would be much longer), but those who have fallen to her spiritual
  appetite. I am her self-appointed accountant in this matter, and until
  recently I have performed the duty without painful reflection. Returning to
  America seems to have dispelled for me the merciful numbness of a dulled
  conscience, casting me bac