Fantasy
Fantasy noun - A conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality.
Short story and fantasy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short story" instead a noun "Fantasy".
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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Synonyms for Short story
Fantasy and short story are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fantasy" instead a noun phrase "Short story".
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Related pairs
- romance and fantasy
- romance and short story
- fairy tale and fantasy
- fairy tale and short story
- fiction and fantasy
- fiction and short story
- fable and fantasy
- fable and short story
- creation and fantasy
- creation and short story
- story and fantasy
- story and short story
- tale and fantasy
- tale and short story
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Has written a fair amount of fantasy, but she's best known for her science fiction, having won two Hugos for novels and one for a short story.
Source: Creator / C. J. Cherryh -
The 1953 short story "The Wall Around The World" by Theodore Cogswell is commonly accepted by the fantasy fiction community to be the progenitor of this trope in modern literature.
Source: Wizarding School - Cruel Sisters is a short story with dark fantasy while retelling the ballad "Twa Sisters," showing Reality Ensues when a harpist makes an instrument out of a dead girl's body.
Source: Dark Fantasy
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