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For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the reader of these bite-size plots can experience character ...

There is a quieter, more succinct wing of literature that thrives on pithy conciseness: the short story. The authors of this art form have perfected the concept of this type of storytelling by ...

I haven't managed to read all of Stephen King's novels yet -- I'm still working on that -- but I have read all of his short stories. All of the published ones, anyway. While many authors release a ...