short short story

See also: short-short story

English

Alternative forms

• short-short story

Noun

short short story (plural short short stories)

1. 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