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
Fans of that cable series and its spinoffs shouldn’t expect the same scale or intricacy of epic storytelling from this feature, which is taken from a short story.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
Taking cues from the Stephen King short story of the same name, the film tracks the unfortunate lives of twin brothers who discover a mysterious wind-up monkey that can cause outrageous deaths at random.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Her short story collection Parallel Hells was published in 2022 and her first novel, The Decadence is coming this year, both from Sceptre Books.
—Hazlitt, 13 Mar. 2025
She was called into the principal’s office after writing a short story featuring a scene with mildly violent imagery.
—Claire Bryan and Sharon Lurye, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
Taking cues from the Stephen King short story of the same name, the film tracks the unfortunate lives of twin brothers who discover a mysterious wind-up monkey that can cause outrageous deaths at random.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Her short story collection Parallel Hells was published in 2022 and her first novel, The Decadence is coming this year, both from Sceptre Books.
—Hazlitt, 13 Mar. 2025
She was called into the principal’s office after writing a short story featuring a scene with mildly violent imagery.
—Claire Bryan and Sharon Lurye, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for short story
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From casting backlash and political dustups to a lingering conversation of how to portray the tale's dwarfs in 2025, here's a timeline detailing the Snow White live-action remake's controversies.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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The five performers take on an endless stream of characters, but each is assigned a principle character that solidly ground the tale.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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Another limited series based on a true-crime story?—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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The novella draws inspiration from all-time classic Bringing Up Baby, which puts paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) in the path of wacky heiress Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn) and her pet leopard, Baby.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
People.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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The 2022 pact added 12 more titles: Coben’s signature 11-book Myron Bolitar series as well as the stand-alone 2021 novella Win, for an adaptation as an ongoing, U.S.-based series.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2025
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With that equation, the researchers were able to compare the difference between the emotional trajectories of two films at any time point (t) in the narrative.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
21 Mar. 2025
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There will be a narrative, at least nationally, that this Drake season, or even this Drake upset (technically), came out of nowhere.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
21 Mar. 2025
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