Introduction

Hello, my name is Anjana Parepalli. I chose to author a collection of historical fiction short stories for my Personal Project. The purpose behind this decision was to share my works with the world through a medium that was creative with a bit of factual backbone, with just over 1,000 words in each story to flesh out my plot with entertaining literary devices and a theme that connected all of the stories. The common theme was ""Don't judge a book by its cover"", and I wrote this theme into my short stories to educate my readers on the importance of this lesson. The collection that I created is dubbed ""Short Story Swarm"", and it has four short stories: ""Part One: Of the Sky and the Sea"", ""Part Two: Of Trickery and Trust"", ""Part Three: Of Time and Trial"" and ""Part Four: Of Cats and Company"".