How long can a story be before it’s no longer a short story?
Or what’s the maximum short story length for flash fiction?
If you’re a fiction writer, you’re already familiar with the distinction between short stories, novellas, and novels.
But now that short stories themselves have sub-species of different lengths, how do you know which is which?
Do those stories you see in your Twitter feed from fellow writers qualify as short stories?
In other words, if there’s a maximum length for a short story, is there also a minimum one?