Join me in my love of great stories
However, it was only when I found myself using the word in my deion of my own stories that I needed to define it. Actually, it was a listener who called my material "nifty stories," and that comment sent me to the books. The current Wiktionary defines the word as "good; a general term for anything that is good, useful or beneficial. " The standard reference Compact Oxford Dictionary states: "particularly good, effective, or stylish. " What was my listener describing when he called my stories "nifty?" The stories I choose to tell are, indeed, particularly good and rather effective at making a point, a lesson, a message, a bit of perspective.