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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Brawler
I Am the Ghost Here
The Universe Box
The Rainseekers
Frog: And Other Essays
Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur
The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky
Onward: 16 Climate Fiction Short Stories to Inspire Hope
Deathcap
Pandemonium Waltz
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 233, February 2026
The Age of Calamities
The Final Score
I Could Be Famous: Stories
Joiner and Rust
The Price of Honey
Time Will Tell
A Play for Love
The Ex-Wives Club (Alibis Collection, #2)
This Is Not About Us
Untouchable (Special Agent Constant Marlowe)
The Final Score
A Welcome Reunion
False Note (Alibis Collection, #3)
Pick a Color
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm
Making Space (The Time Traveler's Passport)
Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank (Finlay Donovan, #3.5)
The Butcher of the Forest
The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan PoeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleDubliners by James Joyce
Best Short Stories
1,759 books — 1,041 voters
Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,900 books — 2,043 voters

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeThe Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanNight Shift by Stephen  KingScary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Most Terrifying Short Stories
376 books — 494 voters
രണ്ടാമൂഴം | Randamoozham by എം.ടി. വാസുദേവന്‍നായര്‍ | M...പാത്തുമ്മായുടെ ആട് | Pathummayude Aadu by Vaikom Muhammad Basheerആടുജീവിതം / Aatujeevitham by Benyaminഖസാക്കിന്റെ ഇതിഹാസം | Khasakkinte Ithihasam | The Legends of ... by ഒ.വി.വിജയൻ | O.V.Vijayanബാല്യകാലസഖി | Balyakalasakhi by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
10 Malayalam Must read before you die book
146 books — 2,323 voters

Evenfall by AisThe Student Prince by FayJayAfterimage by AisThe Violet and the Tom by Eve OcotilloFade by Ais
Favorite Unpublished M/M Stories
337 books — 1,071 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
1,047 books — 1,266 voters

The Yellow Wall-Paper
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Interpreter of Maladies
Stories of Your Life and Others
Tenth of December
The Lottery
Dubliners
Exhalation
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Nine Stories
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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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