short story

short story
    n 1: a prose narrative shorter than a novel
    

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "short story":
      Bildungsroman, Gothic novel, comic novel, detective novel,
      dime novel, dreadful, epistolary novel, erotic novel,
      historical novel, nouvelle, novel, novel of character,
      novel of ideas, novel of incident, novel of manners,
      novel of sensibility, novelette, novella, penny dreadful,
      picaresque novel, pornographic novel, problem novel,
      proletarian novel, propaganda novel, psychological novel,
      regional novel, river novel, roman, roman a clef, roman-fleuve,
      satirical novel, science-fiction novel, sentimental novel,
      shilling shocker, short-short, sociological novel, storiette,
      stream-of-consciousness novel, thesis novel, vignette