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A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based upon length differ even among professional writers the actual length is determined by the individual author's preference and the submission guidelines relevant to the story's actual market.
Subcategories
This category has the following 27 subcategories, out of 27 total.
A
- Short stories adapted into films (11 P)
- Adventure short stories (244 P)
- Austrian short stories (3 P)
B
- Belgian short stories (2 P)
- British short stories (59 P)
C
- Collections of short stories (330 P)
- Czech short stories (32 P)
F
- Fantasy short stories (140 P)
- French short stories (69 P)
G
- German short stories (26 P)
- Greek short stories (1 P)
H
- Historical fiction short stories (72 P)
- Horror short stories (281 P)
- Hungarian short stories (6 P)
I
- Indian short stories (10 P)
- Italian short stories (7 P)
M
P
- Parables (35 P)
- Short stories in periodicals (3,156 P)
- Polish short stories (2 P)
R
- Romantic short stories (493 P)
- Russian short stories (382 P)
S
- Scandinavian short stories (7 P)
- Science fiction short stories (132 P)
- Spanish short stories (7 P)
T
- Thriller short stories (737 P)
Pages in category "Short stories"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 2,235 total.
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- A Book of Ghosts/Aunt Joanna
- A College Vagabond
- A Delayed Heritage
- A Diversity of Creatures/'My Son's Wife'
- A Diversity of Creatures/'Swept and Garnished'
- A Diversity of Creatures/As Easy as A.B.C.
- A Diversity of Creatures/Friendly Brook
- A Diversity of Creatures/In the Presence
- A Diversity of Creatures/In the Same Boat
- A Diversity of Creatures/Regulus
- A Four-Footed Faith and a Two
- A Matter of System
- A Mental Suggestion
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/A merry Christmas
- A New England Nun and Other Stories/A Gala Dress
- A New England Nun and Other Stories/A Village Singer
- A New England Nun and Other Stories/Amanda And Love
- A New England Nun and Other Stories/Calla-Lilies And Hannah
- A New England Nun and Other Stories/Life Everlastin'
- A New England Nun and Other Stories/Louisa
- A New England Nun and Other Stories/Sister Liddy
- A New England Nun and Other Stories/The Twelfth Guest
- A New England Nun and Other Stories/Up Primrose Hill
- A Night in Acadie/After the Winter
- A Night in Acadie/At Chênière Caminada
- A Night in Acadie/Athénaïse
- A Night in Acadie/Azélie
- A Night in Acadie/Caline
- A Night in Acadie/Cavanelle
- A Night in Acadie/Dead Men's Shoes
- A Night in Acadie/Mamouche
- A Night in Acadie/Nég Créol
- A Night in Acadie/Odalie Misses Mass
- A Night in Acadie/Ozème's Holiday
- A Night in Acadie/Polydore
- A Night in Acadie/Regret
- A Night in Acadie/Ripe Figs
- A Night in Acadie/Tante Cat'rinette
- A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent
- A Thief in the Night/Out of Paradise
- Aborigines
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/An accommodating judge
- An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/The Admiral's daughters - Part 1
- The Admiral's Daughters
- An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain
- The Strand Magazine/Volume 3/Issue 17/The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
- The Strand Magazine/Volume 3/Issue 18/The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
- The Strand Magazine/Volume 3/Issue 16/The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
- The Adventures of Miss Gregory/The Adventure on a Portuguese Trader
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/The adventures of Prince Lulu
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/The Affair at Coulter's Notch
- The Affair at Coulter's
- Noughts and Crosses/The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/An Affair of Outposts
- After Reynolds
- After the Ball (Parker)
- After Youth
- Albert Savarus
- Alibi
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/The alibi
- Alien Souls/Black Poppies
- Alien Souls/Feud
- Alien Souls/Grafter and Master Grafter
- Alien Souls/Morituri
- Alien Souls/Reprisal
- Alien Souls/Tao
- Alien Souls/The Strength of the Little Thin Thread
- All Gold Cañon
- Alleys of Darkness
- The Riddle and Other Stories/The Almond Tree
- Revenge!/An Alpine Divorce
- The Alteration in Mr. Kershaw
- The Aluminum Dagger
- Amateur Night
- Diane and Her Friends/The Ambassador
- Twice-Told Tales (1851)/Volume 2/The Ambitious Guest
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/An Adventure at Brownville
- An Egyptian Cigarette
- The Ancient Courage
- Revenge!/And the Rigour of the Game
- That Angel Boy
- An Angel in the House
- Angelus (Porter)
- Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection)/Roderick's Pros
- Bag and Baggage/An Anonymous Letter
- Another Study of a Woman
- Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse/From the Legends of Ancient Egypt
- Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse/The Ploughman
- The Anthropologist at Large
- The Ape (Benson)
- When God Laughs & Other Stories/The Apostate
- Apparition in the Prize Ring
- The Apple of Her Eye
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/The Applicant
- An April Holiday
- The Grey Story Book/Around the Corner
- Around the Spade Wagon
- The Ways of Ghosts/An Arrest
- Mosses from an Old Manse/The Artist of the Beautiful
- Ashes
- Nineteen Impressions/The Ashes of Last Night's Fire
- Mystery Tales of Edgar Allan Poe/The Assignation
- The Assignation
- The Assistant Secretary
- Assize intelligence—very ordinary
- At Comanche Ford
- At Her Beck and Call
- At the End of the Rainbow
- At the Fire-Light Reception
- At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
- The Atheist's Mass
- The Attack in the Rue de la Presse
- Aunt Zeze's Tears
- An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
- The Author of Beltraffio (London: Macmillan, 1922)
- The Azteck Opal
B
- The Chronicles of Clovis/The Background
- The Backslider
- Bad Medicine
- A Baffled Ambuscade
- Bag and Baggage/Bullet-Proof
- Bag and Baggage/Camilla
- Bag and Baggage/John Darling's Atonement
- Bag and Baggage/John Field's Return
- Bag and Baggage/Priscilla Pipkin
- Bag and Baggage/Tony's Drum
- Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches/The Bag
- Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches/The Baker's Dozen
- The Ball at Sceaux
- The Bands of Ballyguttery
- Banjo Nell
- Plain Tales from the Hills/A Bank Fraud
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Barlow Brothers' books
- By Reef and Palm/A Basket of Bread-Fruit
- Bat (Train)
- Bat's Belfry
- The Red Book Magazine/Volume 44/Number 6/The Battle of Berkeley Square
- Ghetto Comedies/The Bearer Of Burdens
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/Dusk
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/Laura
- Beatrice and the Rose
- The Begging-Letter Writer
- Bellowing Bamboo
- The Bells of Cullam
- Tales of the Cloister/Belonging to the Third Order
- The Benevolence of Montana Bill
- Mixed Grill/A Benevolent Character
- The Benevolent Rattlesnake
- Benighted
- Benjamin Harris and His Wife Patience
- The Toys of Peace and Other Papers/Bertie's Christmas Eve
- The Betrothed: A Tale of the Times of Maria Theresa
- Beyond the Wall
- The Big Idea
- Bill-Sticking
- Billiam
- Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory
- The Riddle and Other Stories/The Bird of Travel
- Little Masterpieces - Nathaniel Hawthorne/The Birthmark
- Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son
- The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories/The Bishop's Comedy
- Bits of Glass
- A Bivouac of the Dead
- Black Bass
- The Black Camel
- Black Canaan
- The Black Grippe
- Black Hill
- Black Hound of Death
- A Book of Ghosts/Black Ram
- The Black Stone Statue
- Black Talons
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Black Venn
- Black Vulmea's Vengeance
- Blackmail (Sapper)
- The Blackmailer of Park Lane
- The Blacksmiths of Holsby
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/The Blind Spot
- On the Iron at Big Cloud/The Blood of Kings
- Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches/The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water
- Blow the Chinks Down!
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 11/A blow to "the profession"
- The Blue City
- The Blue Curtains
- Nine Unlikely Tales/The blue mountain
- The Blue-Throated God
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/The Boar-Pig
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/The Boarded Window
- A Book of Ghosts/The "Bold Venture"
- The Book of Dragons/The Book of Beasts
- The Bookkeeper's Wife
- Borrowed Plumes
- Stories in the Dark/The Bottom of the Gulf
- The Riddle and Other Stories/The Bowl
- Bowman's Assist
- The Heart Of Happy Hollow/The Boy and the Bayonet
- The Boy in the Book
- The Boy's Mother
- Bracken Hollow