Fairy tale and Short story

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Fairy tale noun - A statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive.

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Short story and fairy tale are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short story" instead a noun phrase "Fairy tale".

Short story noun - A work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel.

Usage example: her very first short story was accepted for publication in a local journal

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Fairy tale and short story are semantically related. You can use "Fairy tale" instead a noun phrase "Short story".

Windling's also edited, often with Eileen Datlow, several short story collections of fairy tale rewrites.

Source: Twice Told Tale
One Short Story Within a Short Story in the Haruhi Suzumiya novels takes this form after Haruhi asks Mikuru to write a fairy tale complete with illustrations for the Literature Club's magazine.

Source: Storybook Episode
Web writer Tygati's short story A Fairy Tale has a subversion of this: the outwardly calm, beautiful and regal Faerie Queen is really a man, the real Queen's servant who was forced to pretend to be her after her mysterious disappearance, lest the country erupt into chaos.

Source: The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask

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