Synonyms of short stories

short stories

noun

plural of short story

as in stories

a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel

her very first short story was accepted for publication in a local journal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stories
• tales
• novellas
• narratives
• yarns
• fairy tales
• histories
• novelettes
• jokes
• bedtime stories
• anecdotes
• myths
• fables
• records
• parables
• romances
• legends
• reports
• annals
• chronicles
• exempla
• folktales
• accounts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of short stories

Hemingway commended Salinger, then a twenty-five-year-old staff sergeant, on his short stories, and the two conversed for hours. — Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

In addition to acting, Beaumont wrote screenplays, radio scripts, and short stories for magazines. — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 2026

The project is based on four short stories by Mariana Enríquez, and tells the story of Ema, a woman with the ability to see and hear the dead. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 28 July 2026

In many classic short stories, the real action occurs in the silences. — Niela Orr, Vulture, 20 July 2026

Yates brought out three more novels in the 1980s, along with another book of short stories, Liars in Love (1981). — Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 July 2026

These invasion fictions took a range of forms, from short stories and pamphlets to novellas and full-length novels, and proliferated especially in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period leading up to World War I, which brought the subgenre’s brief flourishing to an end. — Ivan Kreilkamp, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2026

Since then, the latter has authored over 40 fantasy and science fiction works, including novels, graphic novels, young adult novels and short stories which have collectively sold over 50 million copies worldwide. — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026

In February of that year, Gabriel García Márquez, then a law student who was beginning to publish his first short stories in newspapers, attended a demonstration led by Gaitán. — Roberto Andrés, The Dial, 28 May 2026