id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5120 Short story - Wikipedia .html text/html 6616 710 72 A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. Science fiction short story with a special poetic touch was a genre developed with great popular success by Ray Bradbury. Short story awards[edit] As a concentrated, concise form of narrative and descriptive prose fiction, the short story has been theorized through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition (the introduction of setting, situation, and main characters), complication (the event that introduces the conflict), rising action, crisis (the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action), climax (the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action) and resolution (the point when the conflict is resolved). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5120.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5120.txt