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short story

brief work of literature, usually written in narrative prose
Intangible literary_genre Q49084
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Short story is a literary genre.[1][2][3]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: literary form[3]
  • Subclass of: short prose[4], work of fiction[5], narration[6], narrative mode[7]
  • Commons category: Short stories[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Short stories[9], Q9479889[10]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox short story[14]
  • Has characteristic: short story award[15]
  • Different from: novella[16], Erzählung[17], narration[18], short short story[19]
  • Studied by: literary studies[20]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Narration[21], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]
  • Category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after short stories[23]

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Influence

Things named for short story include Al-Qaṣaṣ[24], a surah[25].

Why It Matters

short story has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Entities named for it include Al-Qaṣaṣ[24], a surah[25].

Related Entities

Alice Munro A Scandal in Bohemia Astrid Lindgren's short stories Carson McCullers Chinua Achebe Corrado Alvaro Dorothy L. Sayers Edna O'Brien Émile Zola Flowers for Algernon Gabriel García Márquez Irvin Yalom Ivan Bunin literary studies Mabinogion Manuel Puig Rabindranath Tagore Raymond Carver Richard Wright Rip Van Winkle Snow White Tahar Ben Jelloun The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle The Adventure of the Dancing Men The Adventure of the Empty House The Adventure of the Red-Headed League The Adventure of the Speckled Band The Black Cat The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Call of Cthulhu

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms. Retrieved . owlcation.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . lalanguefrancaise.com. Retrieved . lalanguefrancaise.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · Mapenite · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of latvia id → 000078833
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of latvia id: 000078833"
  2. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → short-story
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: short-story, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289959355|short story (#289959355)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  3. 17w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Factgrid item id → Q1787024
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Factgrid item id: Q1787024, adds FactGrid ID"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0234557-povidka
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: u0002491-povidky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  5. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by → literary studies
    Has characteristic → short story award
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
    Subclass of → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 2126, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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