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short story

NOUN
short work of fiction
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WEAK


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He also wrote nine volumes of short stories in 25 years, more than 20 novels and nearly 30 football books.

From BBC

The Post likened him to Ichabod Crane, the fictional schoolmaster in the Washington Irving short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

From The Wall Street Journal

You often hear that short stories make the best movies, as if the notion is to take something compact and widen it with cinema’s scalability.

From Los Angeles Times

During my downtime, I wrote short stories and sent them to publications, without much luck.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ever since I was young and writing my crazy little short stories and stuff, people got something from it.”

From Los Angeles Times