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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A short piece of prose fiction, having few characters and aiming at unity of effect.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A work of fiction that is shorter than a novel.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a prose narrative shorter than a novel

Examples

  • “Eileen Keane's first short story won the Cecil Day Lewis fiction prize in 2004 and in 2007 her short story Tryst was one of 14 chosen through a competition on Seoige and O'Shea on RTE or an anthology called Do the Write Thing (Poolbeg Press).”

    Indymedia Ireland

  • “Chapter One of Forged by Fire first appeared as a short story in Ebony Magazine, January 1991, under the title “One Small Torch.””

    Simon & Schuster: Forged By Fire

  • “John P. Buentello is the author of numerous short stories, essays, biographies, the novel Reproduction Rights and the short story collection Binary Tales.”

    Simon & Schuster: CSS: Shaping the New You

  • “At any rate there is work every day till the task -- novel, short story or play-is done.”

    Penrod

  • “Tod Goldberg is the author of the novels Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Fake Liar Cheat, as well as, most recently, the short story collection Simplify, winner of the Other Voices Short Story Collection Prize.”

    Simon & Schuster: Dont You Forget About Me

  • “Michele Christian lives in Abington, MA and is a published author in several short story books, including Chicken Soup of the Soul: Twins and More.”

    Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters

  • “I sent a laser-printed chapter from my first novel, American Apology, along with its best rejection letter “competently written, at times even affecting” and a short story that my writing group insisted The New Yorker should have taken.”

    Simon & Schuster: Isabel’s Bed

  • “A clue can be found in a 1911 short story by Jack London, describing a rider on the ice drawn by sled dogs: “As they were driving in single file, without reins, he had to guide them by his voice, and it was evident the head-dog had never learned the meaning of gee and haw.””

    Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

  • “In a wonderful short story entitled “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky” Norman Maclean author of A River Runs Through It relates the adventures of a brash young man who is spending the summer working for the forest service in Montana.”

    Simon & Schuster: Life Is a Series of Presentations

  • “If you subscribe to a daily newspaper, you will notice that— once or twice a year—the paper will run a short story that mentions all the journalism awards that particular newspaper has won in some kind of quasi-notable journalism contest.”

    Simon & Schuster: Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture

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