Category:Short stories
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based upon length differ even among professional writers the actual length is determined by the individual author's preference and the submission guidelines relevant to the story's actual market.— Excerpted from Short story on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Subcategories
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
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Pages in category "Short stories"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,653 total.
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A
- A Book of Ghosts/Aunt Joanna
- A College Vagabond
- A Defender of the Faith
- A Delayed Heritage
- A Diversity of Creatures/'My Son's Wife'
- A Diversity of Creatures/'Swept and Garnished'
- A Diversity of Creatures/As Easy as A.B.C.
- A Diversity of Creatures/Friendly Brook
- A Diversity of Creatures/In the Presence
- A Diversity of Creatures/In the Same Boat
- A Diversity of Creatures/Regulus
- A Four-Footed Faith and a Two
- A Garland for Girls, 1893/An Ivy Spray and Ladies' Slippers
- A Garland for Girls, 1893/Little Button-Rose
- A Garland for Girls, 1893/May Flowers
- A Garland for Girls, 1893/Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair
- A Garland for Girls, 1893/Pansies
- A Garland for Girls, 1893/Poppies and Wheat
- A Garland for Girls, 1893/Water-Lilies
- A Matter of System
- A Mental Suggestion
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 1/A merry Christmas
- A Midsummer Knight's Dream
- A Pair of Silk Stockings (Baring-Gould)
- A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent
- A Ship of '49
- A Thief in the Night/Out of Paradise
- A Tipperary Shot
- Aborigines
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 7/An accommodating judge
- An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/Across the sands
- The Admiral's Daughters
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/An adventure in Rhodes
- An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain
- The Adventures of Miss Gregory/The Adventure on a Portuguese Trader
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 6/The adventures of Prince Lulu
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/The Affair at Coulter's Notch
- The Affair at Coulter's
- Noughts and Crosses/The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/An Affair of Outposts
- After the Ball (Parker)
- After the Winter (Chopin)
- Albert Savarus
- Ali Baba
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/The alibi
- All Gold Cañon
- Alleys of Darkness
- The Alteration in Mr. Kershaw
- The Aluminum Dagger
- Amateur Night
- Twice-Told Tales (1851) vol 2/The Ambitious Guest
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/An Adventure at Brownville
- An Episode of Fiddletown
- The Ancient Courage
- That Angel Boy
- An Angel in the House
- Angelus (Porter)
- Ann Mary; Her Two Thanksgivings
- Another Study of a Woman
- Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse/From the Legends of Ancient Egypt
- Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse/The Ploughman
- The Anthropologist at Large
- Apparition in the Prize Ring
- The Apple of Her Eye
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/The Applicant
- Aribaud's Two Wives
- Around The Spade Wagon
- The Ways of Ghosts/An Arrest
- Mosses from an Old Manse/The Artist of the Beautiful
- Aspirations - Explanations
- Mystery Tales of Edgar Allan Poe/The Assignation
- The Assignation
- The Assistant Secretary
- Assize intelligence—very ordinary
- At Chênière Caminada
- At Comanche Ford
- At the End of the Rainbow
- At the Fire-Light Reception
- At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
- The Atheist's Mass
- Athénaïse
- The Attack in the Rue de la Presse
- Aunt Zeze's Tears
- An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
- The Author of Beltraffio (London: Macmillan, 1922)
- The Azteck Opal
- Azélie
B
- The Chronicles of Clovis/The Background
- The Backslider
- Bad Medicine
- A Baffled Ambuscade
- Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches/The Bag
- Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches/The Baker's Dozen
- The Ball at Sceaux
- Banjo Nell
- Plain Tales from the Hills/A Bank Fraud
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Barlow Brothers' books
- By Reef and Palm/A Basket of Bread-Fruit
- Bat (Train)
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/Dusk
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/Laura
- Beatrice and the Rose
- The Begging-Letter Writer
- The Bells of Cullam
- Tales of the Cloister/Belonging to the Third Order
- The Benevolence of Montana Bill
- Benjamin Harris and His Wife Patience
- The Toys of Peace and Other Papers/Bertie's Christmas Eve
- Beyond the Wall
- The Big Idea
- Bill-Sticking
- Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory
- Little Masterpieces - Nathaniel Hawthorne/The Birthmark
- Births. Mrs. Meek, of a Son
- The Man Who Understood Women and Other Stories/The Bishop's Comedy
- Bits of Glass
- A Bivouac of the Dead
- A Book of Ghosts/Black Ram
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Black Venn
- Black Vulmea's Vengeance
- The Blacksmiths of Holsby
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/The Blind Spot
- On the Iron at Big Cloud/The Blood of Kings
- Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches/The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water
- Blow the Chinks Down!
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 11/A blow to "the profession"
- The Blue Curtains
- Nine Unlikely Tales/The blue mountain
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/The Boar-Pig
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/The Boarded Window
- A Book of Ghosts/The "Bold Venture"
- The Book of Dragons/The Book of Beasts
- The Bookkeeper's Wife
- Island Nights' Entertainments/The Bottle Imp
- Stories in the Dark/The Bottom of the Gulf
- Bowman's Assist
- The Boy and The Bayonet
- The Boy in the Book
- The Boy's Mother
- Bracken Hollow
- The Toys of Peace and Other Papers/A Bread and Butter Miss
- Bread Eaten in Secret
- Breed of Battle
- The Brick Moon
- The Bridal of Carrigvarah
- The Brief Début of Tildy
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 4/"Bring me a light!"
- Beasts and Super-Beasts/The Brogue
- Brother Leo
- The Brothers Moginié
- The Literary Sense/The Brute
- Openings in the Old Trail/IV
- The Bull Dog Breed
- The Toys of Peace and Other Papers/The Bull
- Buried Treasure
- A Burlesque Biography
- The Burtons' Burglar
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 5/Business with Bokes
- The Butterfly (Freeman)
- By Reef and Palm/"'Tis in the Blood"
- By Reef and Palm/Brantley of Vahitahi
- By Reef and Palm/Challis the Doubter
- By Reef and Palm/Enderby's Courtship
- By Reef and Palm/Long Charley's Good Little Wife
- By Reef and Palm/Pallou's Taloi
- The Bystander
C
- The Caballero's Way
- Cahoots
- The Californian's Tale
- Caline
- The Caliph, Cupid and the Clock
- A Call Loan
- The Camel's Back
- The Camp of the Good Fairy
- The Camp of the Snake
- The Candid Friend
- Captain Joe and Jamie
- The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales/The Captain of the Pole-Star
- Eliza/The Cards
- Noughts and Crosses/The Carol
- A Case of Identity
- Stories in the Dark/The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit
- Cattle Brands
- Cavanelle
- Celephaïs
- Mosses from an Old Manse/The Celestial Rail-road
- Century Magazine/Volume 76/Issue 4/To Build a Fire
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 10/Ch-ng P-ng; or, The Sphinx of Pekin
- Champ of the Forecastle
- A Champion in Ankle-Straps
- A Chaparral Prince
- The Chronicles of Clovis/The Chaplet
- A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family
- A Thief in the Night/The Chest of Silver
- The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/Chickamauga
- The Child of the Children
- The Child That Went with the Fairies
- A Child's Dream of a Star