I have a novel named "Octavia's Brood" and within the novel contains many science fiction stories, on my upcoming essay, I would like to use a short story from inside the novel called "The River" by Adrienne Maree Brown, she wrote the novel and short story, but I don't know how to do this as a sentence... In the (Novel) by (Author) contains the (short story) or In the (Short story) from (Novel) by (author)? can anyone help me do this? or "The River," a short story by Adrienne Maree Brown appears in his novel, Octavia's Brood.

Answer and Explanation:

From my understanding, all you need is to express that the novel contains the short story. In that case, I believe the best way to do it is the following:

- The short story "The River" by Adrienne Maree Brown, featured in the novel "Octavia's Brood" by the same author, etc.

In case the sentence is not supposed to present any more information, we could simply end it this way:

- The short story "The River" by Adrienne Maree Brown, features in the novel "Octavia's Brood" by the same author.

That way, the structure is not flawed, and we also avoid repeating information, such as the author's name. I believe the structure above is the most direct one. In case you'd like to make it a bit longer, we could try the following:

- Adrienne Maree Brown's novel, "Octavia's Brood", contains several short stories by Brown, among which is "The River".

This is a bit less direct, but it can also work for your purposes.

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