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short stories

noun as in short work of fiction

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I am reading his first book of short stories called “Emporium” that I found at a used bookstore in New Jersey, and I couldn’t believe it because I thought I’d read all of his stuff.

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Resplendent in a deep blue shirt, he was promoting his first book, a mix of short stories and personal essays called “The Last Dream.”

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“I initially began with poetry, then books, short stories, and novels,” he says.

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He’s sick of submitting short stories he’s not too proud of, sick of composing reviews of other people’s work.

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He publishes now a lot of short stories in the New Yorker.

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