A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient ...

The short story is a genre of literature. It is usually fictional narrative prose and tends to be more direct and less-detailed than longer works of fiction, like novels. Short stories are closely related to oral (spoken) story-telling traditions and prose anecdotes. They all develop the story very quickly and come to a conclusion quickly too.

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Publication date. 1953. " A Good Man Is Hard to Find " is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia ], gets wiped out by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit"."

The Black Cat (Poe) at Wikisource. " The Black Cat " is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. In the story, an unnamed narrator has a strong affection for pets until he perversely turns to abusing them. His favorite, a pet black cat, scratches him ...

Publication. The story was first published in Peterburgskaya Gazeta ' s No. 354 (25 December; new style: 7 January 1887), 1886 issue, in the Christmas Stories section, signed A. Chekhonte (А. Чехонте). In a slightly revised version, it was included into the 1888 collection Short Stories (Рассказы, Saint Petersburg) and appeared unchanged in all of its 1888–1899 re-issues.

Dagon at Wikisource. "Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). Dagon was later published in Weird Tales. It is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft ...

1898. " Madame Butterfly " is a short story by American lawyer and writer John Luther Long. It is based on the recollections of Long's sister, Jennie Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband, a Methodist missionary, and was influenced by Pierre Loti 's 1887 novel Madame Chrysanthème. It was published in Century Magazine in 1898 ...

"The Star" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke.It appeared in the science fiction magazine Infinity Science Fiction in 1955 and won the Hugo Award in 1956. It is collected in Clarke's 1958 book of short stories The Other Side of the Sky, and was reprinted in the January 1965 issue of Short Story International as the lead-off story.

The Lottery. " The Lottery " is a short story written by Shirley Jackson, first published in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker. [1] The story describes a fictional small town which observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery," in which a member of the community is selected by chance. The preparations for and execution of the ...

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