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short story

a kind of story shorter than the novel or novelette, characteristically developing a single central theme and limited in scope and number of characters

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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