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A short story is a short work of prose fiction. It may be in any genre of fiction, and the exact definition of "short" will often depend on the genre.

Short stories are often collected together with other short stories, poetry, art, and/or essays in order to form a larger book, although it is becoming more common for short stories to be released as stand-alone ebooks. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Short Stories"

A Conspiracy of Charming Monsters: Illustrated Tales from Elfhame (The Folk of the Air)
The Slantwise Histories: Collected Stories
Picture This (Haven River Ranch, #2.5)
The Back Bedroom: A True Story of Exorcism and Murder
Veil of Web and Ruin (The Hirathean Path, #0.5)
Run for Your Life
Everybody's Favorite Guy
Tower Fall (Pursuit Collection)
A Welcome Reunion
John Grebble Is Gone
Bushido (Pursuit Collection)
Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk (Magic & Mystery, #1)
The Safe Room
Takedown (Pursuit Collection)
The Final Hour (Pursuit Collection)
False Note
You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
The Man Who Read Books
Secrets of Blackthorn Hall
Time Will Tell
Cutthroat
Flesh and Blood (Pursuit Collection)
Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank (Finlay Donovan, #3.5)
The Skydivers
Como bestias
Find Me Where It Ends
An Inside Job
Pick a Color
Matcha on Monday (Marble Cafe, #2)
Better Than Before (Betting on You, #0.5; Better than the Movies, #0.5)
Christmas at Falstone Castle (The Lancaster Family, #4.5)
Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II: An Indigenous Horror Anthology
A Play for Love
A Fatal Delivery
The Line
Engines of Reason (Elder Race #2)
The Silent Muse
The Winter Guest
Nothing Better Than You (Better than the Movies, #1.6)
The Picasso Heist
The Extra (The Outsiders Sequence, #1)
Leave It Up To Love
O Now!
Welcome to the Kokoro Cat Clinic (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #3)
Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
We'll Prescribe You Another Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #2)
Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Earth (The Elements, #2)
The Twelve Loves of Christmas: An Advent Romance Collection
My Life: Growing Up Native in America
The Asylum Confessions (The Asylum Confession Files #1)
Safe Harbor
Julia at the Drive-In
The Amberglow Candy Store (The Night Alley, #1)
La muerte viene estilando
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Let Me in Your Window (Horror Stories by Adam Ellis)
Fire
Phantom Pond (Shady Hollow #4.5)
A Murder in Hollywood
The Delivery
Air (The Elements, #4)
This Is Where the Serpent Lives
Break Room
A Honeymoon in Venice
A Sea Change
Гемінґвей нічого не знає
Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories: From the Creator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Awesome Friendly Kid Series Book 3)
You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
The First Shot (Mrs. Parrish, #.5)
She's Always Hungry
The Other (The Outsiders Sequence, #2)
Still Hung Up on You
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
The Damage Man (Orphan X, #11.5)
Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror
Grimdark Magazine Issue #48
The Summer of the Serpent
The Sublet
For a Limited Time Only (The Time Traveler's Passport)
No One Rides For Free
Wes & Liz’s College Road Trip (Better than the Movies, #1.7)
The Rival Upgrade (Love and Hockey #7)
Good Boy
Eerie Basin
Wrong Norma
Tell Her Story
The Apple Pie Ice Cream Parlor (Dream Harbor, #4.5)
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
Cause of Death
Visions of You (Lost & Found, #0.5)
No todo el mundo
Night (Zodiac Academy, #5.4)
In Bloom
The Wrong Bones (Widow's Island, #10)
Choice
Preaching to the Choir (Terrible Worlds: Transformations)
Terrestrial

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Quotes Tagged “Short Stories”

“ Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, Governors, Mayors, Judges and Justices all fall prey to the Hitman. ”
― RB Le `Deach, My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories
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Lorrie Moore
“ A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. ”
― Lorrie Moore
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