Short Story

• Shorter than a Novel

It is a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

•Prose fiction

is a short work of fiction. Fiction, as you know, is prose writing about imagined events and characters.
Prose writing differs from poetry in that it does not depend on verses, meters or rhymes for its
organization and presentation.

•Single plot

focuses on the incidents bigger or smaller and evokes strong feelings from its readers. A short story
often has a few characters in the plot.The standard features include exposition, complication, crisis,
climax, and resolution of the crisis. However, it is not essential that all short stories follow the same
pattern.

• Can be read in one sitting

work of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting—usually between 20 minutes to an hour. There
is no maximum length, but the average short story is 1,000 to 7,500 words, with some outliers reaching
10,000 or 15,000 words. At around 10 to 25 pages, that makes short stories much shorter than novels,
with only a few approaching novella length. A piece of fiction shorter than 1,000 words is considered a
“short short story” or “flash fiction,” and anything less than 300 words is rightfully called “microfiction.”

Examples of Short Story:

Alejandro Roces

We Filipinos Are Mild Drinkers

Carlos Bulosan:

My Father Goes To Court

Nick Joaquin:

The Summer Solstice

Manuel Arguilla:

How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife

Jose Garcia Villa:

Footnote To Youth
Aida L. Rivera:

Love in the Cornhusks

Bienvenido Santos

Scent of Apples