Short Stories

A short story is a short work of prose fiction. It may be in any genre of fiction, and the exact definition of "short" will often depend on the genre.

Short stories are often collected together with other short stories, poetry, art, and/or essays in order to form a larger book, although it is becoming more common for short stories to be released as stand-alone ebooks.
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My Dear You
The Language of Liars
Paranormal Payback
Fat Swim: Fiction
The Penguin Book of the International Short Story
Rabbit Test and Other Stories
Some Stupid Glow: Stories
The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own
Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World
Let's Go to the Zoo
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 235, April 2026
The Day-Blind Stars
I Spin Records into Gold
Blood Garlands
The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love
The Dinner Party: A Pick Your Poison Adventure
Out Law (The Dresden Files #18.75)
You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone (Deadly Ambition, #3)
Everybody's Favorite Guy
Upward Bound
A Fatal Delivery (Deadly Ambition, #4)
The Silent Muse (Deadly Ambition, #5)
A Welcome Reunion
The Ex-Wives Club (Alibis Collection, #2)
The Line (Deadly Ambition, #6)
Darksight Dare (Penric and Desdemona, #16)
Leave It Up To Love
Time Will Tell
Cutthroat
A Crown of Ruin (Blood and Ash #6.5)
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
757 books — 1,923 voters
Una historia de ayer by Sergio CoboSummer Angel by Samantha JacobeyLife is a Circus Run by a Platypus by Allison HawnBeneath the Willow by Gemma FarrowGalactic Energies by Luca  Rossi
Indie Novellas, Novelettes, and Short Stories
1,049 books — 1,268 voters

Romancing the Paranormal by Stephanie RoweSummer Fire by Gennita LowPeace, Love, & Romance by Jennifer TheriotIndulgence by Nina LevinePropose To Me by Caroline Andrus
Best Romance Anthologies/Collections
294 books — 723 voters
The Joy Luck Club by Amy TanNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini Selladurai
Immigrant Experience Literature
1,056 books — 1,711 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Interpreter of Maladies
Stories of Your Life and Others
The Lottery
Tenth of December
Exhalation
Dubliners
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Nine Stories
The Lottery and Other Stories
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.
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She likes me.  I can tell.  Problem is, she won’t admit that to the boyfriends she brings over.
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