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after Brad Vice's award-winning short stories were destroyed by his publisher because of a disputed plagiarism charge, remaining copies sold for hundreds of dollars?
The Man Who Came Early, a 1956 time travel short story by Poul Anderson, was written as the antithesis of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
the Louisiana short story writer Ada Jack Carver Snell had a French grandmother who encouraged her literary and intellectual pursuits?
the short story "The Congress" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published in a deluxe edition with the letters made of gold?
the Children of the Corn horror-flick movie series is based on a Stephen King short story?
the venomous snake used for murder in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is most likely the Indian Cobra or one of its hybrids?
The God Stealer is the most anthologized short story written by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil José?
Kaa's Hunting is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli?
Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan was the "Yankee Doodle" in the George M. Cohan Broadway musical "Little Johnny Jones" and the basis for Ernest Hemingway's short story "My Old Man"?
Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism?
Nick Joaquin's short story The Summer Solstice is about the fertility ritual known as the Tatarin?
Nick Joaquin's May Day Eve is a short story about a couple who got married because of an incantation recited in front of a mirror?
American novelist Harold MacGrath had 18 of his 40 novels and 3 of his fictional short stories made into motion pictures?
Anglo-German novelist Elizabeth von Arnim was a cousin to New Zealand short story writer Katherine Mansfield?
"Indian Camp" (published in 1925) was the first Ernest Hemingway short story to feature the semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams?

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The cover of the first Strange New Worlds short story anthology.

A short story is a literary work of up to 7500 words, as defined by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, generally published in anthologies. Entries to the Strange New Worlds contests are examples of short stories. In recent years Pocket Books has taken to releasing anthologies of short stories to celebrate anniversaries of series'.

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Short stories are pieces of concise literature usually written in prose. There is no universal accepted length to qualify as a short story, though the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America considers a short story to be a piece of fiction under 7,500 words in length.

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