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Short Stories to enjoy when you have 5 minutes to spare, sorted by category so you can find what suits your mood. Stories average 1,000 words, including morality tales, feel-good/love stories, other-worldly stories, witty stories, dramatic stories, and farce/political stories.
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Here we have gathered thirty-one of the best short stories and collections, from all sorts of backgrounds and sources, to help you grow your “To Be Read” pile. For your convenience, we've divided this post into two parts: 1. the ten best free short stories to read right now, and 2. best short story collections.
There are thousands of short stories in our short story library, but with so many stories and so little time, we did you the favor of collecting our favorite 100 short stories in one place for you to enjoy.
10 of the Best Very Short Stories That Can Be Read Online – Interesting Literature. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) One very short story – often attributed to Ernest Hemingway but actually the work of another writer – is just six words long: ‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn’.
Jun 18, 2024 · short story, brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters. The short story is usually concerned with a single effect conveyed in only one or a few significant episodes or scenes.
Short stories make use of plot, resonance and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. [citation needed]
