Category:Short stories
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 32 subcategories, out of 32 total.
A
- Adventure short stories (262 P)
- Austrian short stories (3 P)
B
- Belgian short stories (2 P)
- Brazilian short stories (8 P)
- British short stories (62 P)
C
- Czech short stories (50 P)
F
- Fantasy short stories (152 P)
- French short stories (76 P)
G
- German short stories (28 P)
- Greek short stories (1 P)
H
- Horror short stories (290 P)
- Hungarian short stories (6 P)
I
- Indian short stories (10 P)
- Italian short stories (6 P)
M
- Mexican short stories (empty)
N
- New Zealand short stories (10 P)
P
- Parables (36 P)
- Polish short stories (2 P)
R
- Romantic short stories (510 P)
- Russian short stories (396 P)
S
- Spanish short stories (9 P)
T
- Thriller short stories (765 P)
W
- Western short stories (11 P)
Pages in category "Short stories"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 2,379 total.
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- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/A night with the boobies
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/A story-telling party
- A. V. Laider
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/An accommodating judge
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/The Admiral's daughters - Part 1
- The Admiral's Daughters
- The Lady of the Barge/An Adulteration Act
- Purcell Papers/An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain
- The Strand Magazine/Volume 4/Issue 24/The Adventure of Silver Blaze
- 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
- Adventure/Dough or Dynamite
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/The adventures of Prince Lulu
- The Adventures of Romney Pringle/The Assyrian Rejuvenator
- The Adventures of Romney Pringle/The Chicago Heiress
- The Adventures of Romney Pringle/The Foreign Office Despatch
- The Adventures of Romney Pringle/The Kailyard Novel
- The Adventures of Romney Pringle/The Lizard's Scale
- The Adventures of Romney Pringle/The Paste Diamonds
- 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 the Ball (Parker)
- After Youth
- Ainslee's Magazine/Lady Pam's Bridge Debts
- Albert Savarus
- 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/The Logical Tale of the Four Camels
- Alien Souls/The Perfect Way
- Alien Souls/Reprisal
- Alien Souls/The Soul of a Turk
- Alien Souls/The Strength of the Little Thin Thread
- Alien Souls/Tao
- Alien Souls/The Two-Handed Sword
- Alleys of Darkness
- The Riddle and Other Stories/The Almond Tree
- Revenge!/An Alpine Divorce
- The Alteration in Mr. Kershaw
- McClure's Magazine/Volume 35/Number 3/The Aluminum Dagger
- Diane and Her Friends/The Ambassador
- Twice-Told Tales (1851)/Volume 2/The Ambitious Guest
- Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War/An Ambuscade
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/An Adventure at Brownville
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/An election story
- Harper's Magazine/The Ancient Courage
- Revenge!/And the Rigour of the Game
- The Tangled Threads/That Angel Boy
- Harper's Magazine/An Angel in the House
- Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection)/Roderick's Pros
- Bag and Baggage/An Anonymous Letter
- Another Study of a Woman
- An Anthology of Czechoslovak Literature/The Recruits
- 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
- McClure's Magazine/Volume 35/Number 1/The Anthropologist at Large
- When God Laughs & Other Stories/The Apostate
- Apparition in the Prize Ring
- The Tangled Threads/The Apple of Her Eye
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/The Applicant
- The English Illustrated Magazine/An April Holiday
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 3/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
- Harper's Magazine/The Assistant Secretary
- Assize intelligence—very ordinary
- 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
- The Author of Beltraffio (London: Macmillan, 1922)
- The Azteck Opal
B
- Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War/The Baby's Christmas
- The Chronicles of Clovis/The Background
- The Backslider
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 3/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
- 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
- The Begging-Letter Writer
- Bellowing Bamboo
- The Bells of Cullam
- Tales of the Cloister/Belonging to the Third Order
- Munsey's Magazine/The Benevolence of Montana Bill
- Mixed Grill/A Benevolent Character
- The English Illustrated Magazine/The Benevolent Rattlesnake
- 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
- The Big Idea
- Bill-Sticking
- 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 Canaan
- The Black Grippe
- Black Hill
- 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
- The Blacksmiths of Holsby
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/The Blind Spot
- On the Iron at Big Cloud/The Blood of Kings
- O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, 1919/The Blood of the Dragon
- 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 Peter/Extra Hands of the Nemesis
- The Blue Peter/The Overcrowded Iceberg
- The Blue Peter/The Strange Situation of Captain Brogger
- The English Illustrated Magazine/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 Book of Dragons/Kind Little Edmund
- The Book of Dragons/Uncle James
- A Book of Ghosts/Aunt Joanna
- Century Magazine/Volume 92/Issue 1/The Bookkeeper's Wife
- 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
- Harper's Magazine/The Boy's Mother
- Boys' Life/Volume 9/Number 9/Good Night, Knight
- Bracken Hollow
- The Toys of Peace and Other Papers/A Bread and Butter Miss
- Bread Upon the Waters (Kipling)
- Breaking the Blue Roan
- Breed of Battle
- The Brick Moon
- Purcell Papers/The Bridal of Carrigvarah
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 4/"Bring me a light!"
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/The Brogue
- Revenge!/The Bromley Gibberts Story
- The Brothers Moginié
- The Literary Sense/The Brute
- Openings in the Old Trail/IV
- The Bull Dog Breed
- The Toys of Peace and Other Papers/The Bull
- The Lost Road (collection)/The Buried Treasure of Cobre
- A Burlesque Biography
- Burton's Gentleman's Magazine/Morella
- Harper's Weekly/The Burtons' Burglar
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/Business with Bokes
- Harper's Magazine/The Butterfly
- By Reef and Palm/"'Tis in the Blood"
- By Reef and Palm/Brantley of Vahitahi
- By Reef and Palm/Challis the Doubter
- By Reef and Palm/Enderby's Courtship
- By Reef and Palm/Long Charley's Good Little Wife
- By Reef and Palm/Pallou's Taloi
- By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/Crows in Summer
- By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/Crows in Winter
- By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/Curly Locks and the Fluffy Tails
- By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/Hoppy Hop's Supper
- By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/A House Full of Spiders
- By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/How the Toad Gets a Drink of Water
- By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/Polyphemus
- By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/The Polyphemus Children
- By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/A Queer Pet
- By the Roadside (Dunn and Troxell)/Thistle Birds