short story
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Literatureshort storyˌshort ˈstory noun [countable] ALa short written story about imaginary situations and charactersExamples from the Corpusshort story• F fable A short story in prose or verse which is written so that a moral may be learnt from it.• Our last short story competition was so popular, we're running another one: see page 118.