Short Stories

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.
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50 True Stories That Will Scare You to Death: True Crime, Hauntings, Aliens, and More
We Were Forbidden
You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
It Will Come Back To You
Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk (Magic & Mystery, #1)
The Wednesday Witches Book Club (Magic & Mystery, #2)
A Labyrinth of Honeybees (Magic & Mystery, #4)
The Lion’s Tusk (Magic & Mystery, #3)
The Wizard Who Kept Himself Suspicious (Magic & Mystery, #5)
Battle of the Round House (Magic & Mystery, #6)
Heat Trap: A Short Story
Abby, Skylar, and Gwyn's Awesome Apprenticeship Adventures (Jon's Mysteries)
The Language of Knives: Stories
Horizon Hong Kong: Selected Stories
In the Hours Preceding the Fall of Tau-Sants
Run for Your Life
John Grebble Is Gone
The Wednesday Witches Book Club (Magic & Mystery, #2)
The Lion’s Tusk (Magic & Mystery, #3)
The Safe Room
A Labyrinth of Honeybees (Magic & Mystery, #4)
A Welcome Reunion
The Wizard Who Kept Himself Suspicious (Magic & Mystery, #5)
Battle of the Round House (Magic & Mystery, #6)
Safe Harbor
A Honeymoon in Venice
Julia at the Drive-In
A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam (Six of Crows, #2.5)
You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
Everybody's Favorite Guy
Una historia de ayer by Sergio CoboWorm Holes by Kyle KeyesLove is the Answer, God is the Cure by Aimee Cabo NikolovBentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past by Paul CudeA Conceptual Circus by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
Indie Writers Unite!
1,279 books — 1,054 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
771 books — 1,959 voters

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George Orwell
Works of Pure Genius
765 books — 663 voters

Una historia de ayer by Sergio CoboSummer Angel by Samantha JacobeyLife is a Circus Run by a Platypus by Allison HawnBeneath the Willow by Gemma FarrowGalactic Energies by Luca  Rossi
Indie Novellas, Novelettes, and Short Stories
1,055 books — 1,288 voters
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsSaint Richard Parker by Merlin FrancoCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSomeone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews
Best Humor Writing
879 books — 997 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Interpreter of Maladies
Stories of Your Life and Others
The Lottery
Tenth of December
Exhalation
Dubliners
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Nine Stories
The Lottery and Other Stories
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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