The Short Story

Authors note:
This was one of the most difficult pieces to write. Due to the fact it is the last one that i will write in the Academy. I wanted to use something i did last year, which was analyzing short stories. So i wanted to do a piece that explained what one was.


Reading a short story is some Americans favorite pastimes. A short story is a work of fiction, and has quite history a of it's own. Many popular stories we know of today, are some of the most influential short stories around.

Reading is one of the world's most popular pastimes. It lets the readier escape reality and go somewhere they may wish they are. Books and stories have shaped history, with it's greatest, and worst leaders. But many great writing pieces are too long to read all in one time. They take weeks of dedication to finish. But is the past few centuries a "new" type of writing has come into play; The Short Story.

The first practical short story  was created by a man named Edgar Allen Poe, circa 1800. He believed it had to be short enough to read in one sitting, unlike most stories at this time. It also had to have one main character, setting, point and theme. Also, Poe believed that all pieces had to have no unnecessary words included.

The short story is everywhere in modern literature. Some famous pieces, such as "The-Tale Heart", "The Circuit", and "The Glorious White-washer", are all examples of short story literature. All in all, short stories allow us to have a good story, that's able to be read in one sitting.