Record
Record noun - A relating of events usually in the order in which they happened.
Short story and record are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short story" instead a noun "Record".
Short story
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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Synonyms for Short story
Record and short story are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Record" instead a noun phrase "Short story".
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Kurt Cobain created layers of guitar feedback and distortion to accompany ""The Priest" They Called Him", where Burroughs reads his own eponymous short story on record.
Source: Creator / William S. Burroughs - Subverted in what may be the oldest example on record, Murray Leinster's 1946 short story "A Logic Named Joe." "Joe" is a home computer which, by some manufacturing defect, becomes intelligent.
Source: AI Is A Crapshoot / Literature - She has a record-breaking eleven Hugo Awards, and is the only author to date to have won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award in all four lengths (novel, novella, novelette, and short story).
Source: Creator / Connie Willis
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