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How long do you consider a short story to be? Whenever I try to write one, it always ends up being more than 10 pages. >.<
Edgar Allan Poe said that a short story is one that can be read in “the limit of a single sitting”. That’s the definition I usually go with!
Here’s his complete essay, The Philosophy of Composition, where he says that. He makes some other pretty interesting points too. Poe’s a bamf.
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