Short story

Edgar Allan Poe Homer Charles Brockden Brown Thousand and One Nights Sketch story Subplot Literary journals Foil (literature) Thriller (genre) Writing process T. C. Boyle Anton Chekhov Tragedy Political fiction Narrative mode Irish short story Charles Perrault Fairy tale Verse Roman Empire Twice-Told Tales Steven Millhauser Speculative fiction Fantasy Literary journal Crime fiction Guy de Maupassant The Old Man and the Sea Geoffrey Chaucer Historical fiction O. Henry Style (fiction) Jhumpa Lahiri Donald Barthelme Short Story (music) Dénouement Lists of writers Literary genre The Philosophy of Composition Literary theory P.G. Wodehouse Epic poetry Ernest Hemingway The New Yorker Narrator Motif (narrative) Vignette (literature) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow History of modern literature Rhyming Flannery O’Connor Fable A Legend of Old Egypt Rising action List of literary awards Life (magazine) Anthologies Falling action Jean Stafford Narrative Protagonist Parable Climax (narrative) Philosophical novel Jorge Luis Borges Flash fiction Kurt Vonnegut Nathaniel Hawthorne Fables Canterbury Tales Saga Publisher Conflict (narrative) Prose The Garden of Forking Paths James Baldwin (writer) Literary criticism Gift of the Magi Suspension of disbelief Robert Olen Butler Nikolai Gogol Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka Iliad Joyce Carol Oates Utopia Dan Chaon List of basic literature topics F. Scott Fitzgerald Adventure novel Educate Grace Paley Anecdote Dystopia Religious Herman Melville John Cheever Frame story Parables Bolesław Prus Spirituality Entertain Alice Munro

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العربية - قصة قصيرة
Български - Разказ
Bosanski - Pripovjetka
Česky - Povídka
Dansk - Novelle
Deutsch - Kurzgeschichte
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Esperanto - Novelo
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Italiano - Racconto
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Nederlands - Kort verhaal
‪Norsk (nynorsk)‬ - Novelle
‪Norsk (bokmål)‬ - Novelle
Polski - Opowiadanie
پښتو - لنډه کيسه
Português - Conto
Română - Povestire
Русский - Рассказ
Simple English - Short story
Slovenčina - Poviedka
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ไทย - เรื่องสั้น
اردو - افسانہ
ייִדיש - קורצע דערציילונג
中文 - 短篇小說