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short story

noun as in short work of fiction

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The movie radiates the spare, rugged poetry of a short story or a John Prine song.

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The dilemma isn’t a new one, as Truman Capote made clear in his 1967 short story “The Thanksgiving Visitor.”

He sold his first short story to the Atlantic Monthly at the age of 23.

This hefty collection promises “something for everyone” in its harvest of 20 short stories by current authors from David Avallone to Andrew Welsh-Huggins.

He had ambitions to turn a short story of his called “Cotton” into an animated short.

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