The students presented a brief minidrama about the invention of the cotton gin.

These Glowbards neuer appeare before hay is ripe.

More simply stated, the paracosmos reflects a writer's interest in examining a (generally) rather small number of persons, or types of persons, in a variety of circumstances and relationships: he has marked out a portion of the world as his own and works upon it to make it his.

Coordinate term: puff piece