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short stories

NOUN

short work of fiction

Synonyms

STRONGEST

narrative novella tale

WEAK

account novelette yarn

Antonyms

WEAK

epic

Example Sentences

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Unlike the other artifacts with no traceable provenance, these short stories are bad.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

The membership benefit is described as: “A living archive of lectures from the grave, letters never sent, and original short stories curated by Bob Dylan.”

From Salon • May 12, 2026

This is as it ought to be with short stories, which have to make their points in a relative hurry.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

In their fiction—mostly novels for Woolf, short stories for Mansfield—they experimented by replacing linear narrative and descriptive detail with suggestion and symbolism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Miss Bell asked us to write short compositions analyzing short stories we read for class.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez