Also, the stories fail to establish any sense of context that would justify concerns over the differences in scores they report.

Characters are generic, and the story fails to grab the viewer.

To him, a story has failed when it requires a critic to mediate between the reader and author.

However he is forced to give up after his story failed to win at a spring literature contest.

That is one thing in which my stories fail: I am always cutting the flesh off their bones.

"Is there a test of what qualifies as news that this story fails?"

The story fails to explain why he began to notice things that were perhaps there all along.

The stories fail to build, because they're reported in a way that minimizes them.

Nancy's stories about her chaotic household never failed to be entertaining.

If two stories fail to convince, however, the other eight not only succeed, but even invite second and third close readings.