short story — short story, adj. a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words. [1885 90] * * * Brief fictional prose narrative. It usually presents a single significant episode or scene involving a limited number of characters. The form encourages… … Universalium
short story — short stories N COUNT A short story is a written story about imaginary events that is only a few pages long. He published a collection of short stories … English dictionary
Short story — The short story is a literary genre of fictional prose narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such as novellas (in the modern sense of the term) and novels.OverviewShort stories have their origins in … Wikipedia
long-short story — ˈ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ noun : a short story of more than average length : a prose narrative intermediate between a short story and a short novel … Useful english dictionary
Ghost (short story) — Ghost is the framing story in Larry Niven s 1994 fixup Crashlander that lightly connects and extends the other Beowulf Shaeffer stories published up to that time. The chapters in Crashlander are arranged in the following sequence::* Ghost: One:*… … Wikipedia
Neutron Star (short story) — Neutron Star is an English language science fiction short story written by Larry Niven. It was originally published in the August 1966 issue (Issue 107, Vol 16, No 10) of Worlds of If. It was later reprinted in Neutron Star, (New York: Ballantine … Wikipedia
Partners in Crime (short story collection) — infobox Book | name = Partners in Crime title orig = translator = image caption = Dust jacket illustration of the US (true first) edition. See Publication history (below) for UK first edition jacket image. author = Agatha Christie cover artist =… … Wikipedia
Brokeback Mountain (short story) — Infobox short story | name = Brokeback Mountain title orig = translator = author = Annie Proulx country = United States language = English series = genre = Short story published in = The New Yorker publication type = Magazine publisher = The New… … Wikipedia
The Nose (short story) — Infobox short story | name = The Nose title orig = Hana translator = Ivan Morris, Jay Rubin author = Akutagawa Ryūnosuke country = Japan language = Japanese series = genre = Short story published in = The Tokyo Imperial University student… … Wikipedia
Dagon (short story) — Dagon Author H. P. Lovecraft Country United States Language English Genre(s) Horror short story … Wikipedia
Critical Mass (short story) — Critical mass Author Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth Country USA Language … Wikipedia
