short story

1. 1.

   a prose narrative shorter than a novel

   Broaderstory

Questions about short story

What does short story mean?

short story means "a prose narrative shorter than a novel".

Is short story a common word?

short story is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.