Epic
Short story
Short story noun - A work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel.
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Epic is an antonym for short story in short work of fiction topic.
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald's farcical short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was adapted to a three-hour long epic romantic film.
Source: Adaptation Expansion - Jorge Luis Borges' short story "El Aleph" features a poet who is obsessed with his own mediocre poetry, and believes that as soon as anyone of importance will read his epic poem, he will be immediately regarded as the greatest poet of his time.
Source: Giftedly Bad -
Kids Wilderness Epic: A Beautiful Friendship had shades of this in the original short story: Stephanie goes out in a hang glider to find Climbs Quickly, but crashes in a storm and is nearly killed except for the intervention of the Treecats.
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