as in tale
a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel
her very first short story was accepted for publication in a local journal
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Recent Examples of short story
In addition to her 66 novels and 14 short story collections, Christie penned 33 plays, spurred, in part, by her dissatisfaction with how others had adapted her works for the stage.
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Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Four years ago, a high school English teacher posted a short story to Reddit, a tale with Gone Girl-worthy twists and turns.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
Her short story collection Parallel Hells was published in 2022 and her first novel, The Decadence...
—Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
In the short story, a drifter impersonates a missing girl to rob the girl’s family — only to realize she’s made a terrible mistake.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025
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Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Four years ago, a high school English teacher posted a short story to Reddit, a tale with Gone Girl-worthy twists and turns.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2025
Her short story collection Parallel Hells was published in 2022 and her first novel, The Decadence...
—Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
In the short story, a drifter impersonates a missing girl to rob the girl’s family — only to realize she’s made a terrible mistake.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for short story
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Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales of King Arthur and Merlin – and its survival is considered a miracle.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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That said, the tale of how a crude blue cartoon bear ran for office and actually did well despite common sense became far more relevant once Donald Trump began campaigning for the presidency.—
Steve Greene,
IndieWire,
12 Apr. 2025
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Forbes Daily: Join over 1 million Forbes Daily subscribers and get our best stories, exclusive reporting and essential analysis of the day’s news in your inbox every weekday.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Despite some lofty promises from Chrissy and people’s overall wariness of Mitch and his story, the opportunity to eliminate Sai was just too tempting.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
10 Apr. 2025
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An adaptation of the Max Porter novella Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, the drama revolves around a widower (Cumberbatch) who is left to raise two young sons after the unexpected death of his wife.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2025
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Crime 101 is directed by Bart Layton, and adapted from a novella by Don Winslow.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
6 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, Democrats, whose votes may not be required to propel Trump’s budget into law, are nonetheless practiced at pummeling the majority party using a political and up-to-the-minute economic narrative.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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Taking narratives to a whole new level, Split Fiction casts you and your significant other as Mio and Zoe, a pair of down-on-their-luck writers who become trapped in a combination of their stories (sci-fi meets fantasy) due to an accident at a groundbreaking literary tech firm.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Short story.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short%20story. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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