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[waterspyder]

How long is a typical short story?

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[corradus.livejournal.com]

Usually too damn long in my case...

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I was bitten by the bug to write... that and people have been offering me lunches and dinners to fix their resumes. Bribery works. I'll go read your story now. I keep forgetting you just asked me to read, and not necessarily edit.

[corradus.livejournal.com]

I guess I just meant that I tend to start out wanting to write a short story and end up with a novella. I was always told about ten pages.

*sigh* and I have nothing with which I can bribe ye anyhow...

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Long enough to be read in one sitting is what I usually see. Isaac Asimov wrote one that was less than two pages long that always stuck in my mind.

[feli-valkyria.livejournal.com]

20 pages.

That's what I think, lol, and seem to recall how long they tend to be.

[purplezart.livejournal.com]

as my junior high english teacher was so fond of answering to that particular question:

"long enough"

^.^