short short story

See also: short-short story

English

Alternative forms

short-short story

Noun

short short story (plural short short stories)

A work of fiction that is briefer than typical short stories.
- 1936, E. M. Vickrey, “The Integration of Composition and the Short Story”, in Peabody Journal of Education, volume 13, number 4, page 182:
  We do not mean the length of the average short story, but rather that of the "short short story" that ranges from 500 to 1200 words.

Synonyms

drabble, flash fiction, flashfic, microfiction, sudden fiction

Translations

a kind of work of fiction

Estonian: mininovell
Finnish: mininovelli
Japanese: ショートショート (shōto shōto)
Swedish: miniatyrnovell c, mininovell c

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