First, I reccomend you sit down and read perldata,perlref, and skim through perllol and perldsc, and then consider this piece of code 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$\="\n";
my %jar = qw( a b c d);
my @ppp = ( \%jar );

print a => $jar{a};
print a => $ppp[0]->{a};
print c => $jar{c};
print c => $ppp[0]->{c};

$jar{a}='gork';
$jar{c}='gork';
push @ppp, \%jar;

print a => $jar{a};
print a => $ppp[0]->{a};
print a => $ppp[1]->{a};
print c => $jar{c};
print c => $ppp[0]->{c};
print c => $ppp[1]->{c};

{
  my %jar = ( a => shark => c => shark => 1 => 2 );
  push @ppp, \%jar;
}

print a => $jar{a};
print a => $ppp[0]->{a};
print a => $ppp[1]->{a};
print a => $ppp[2]->{a};
print c => $jar{c};
print c => $ppp[0]->{c};
print c => $ppp[1]->{c};
print c => $ppp[2]->{c};

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Basically, all you're pushing onto your array, is the same hashref over and over and over again, whose values you redefine, over and over and over and over again.

Now your hash is not a global, even though you kind of treat it as such (globals live in the package namespace, they aren't declared with my, they're declared with use vars '%global', or our(%global), or %package::name::global).

Before you push @stories, \%story, you could simply create a new hash, and push it's reference onto @stories. Example 

use strict;
$\="\n";
my %f = 1..4;
print \%f;
my %b = %f;
print \%b;
print they => are => not => equal => chr(33) if \%b ne \%f ;

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In reply to (crazyinsomniac: perlref) Re: Problem with a Ref to a global variable while using XML::Parser by crazyinsomniac
in thread Problem with a Ref to a global variable while using XML::Parser by beamsack

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