I'm aware that it says shirt and betwwen. I honestly can't wait to scrap this 1st gen iPad and get the new one -.-

I personally associate short stories as one shots. If your story has chapters, then it's more just a not-very long book and not so much a short story. A short story is a single story, no chapters, just one entity. I know that's not how everyone will look at it, but it's my definition.

Well, for me I think it's mainly how deep the story gets.

I can't "really" get into a short story if it stops too short or isn't as interesting as I thought it would be.

I mean, I've read tons of books. The Iliad, The Republic, Many of Shakespeare's plays, Edgar Poe's pieces, H.G Wells and many more....

I like the classics

@Comrade If you are a fan of the classics, can I safely assume you've read the brilliant works of H.P Lovecraft?

@Chaotic Discord. That's avfairly logical way of looking at it, what I am writing is by no means a short story, I am aiming for a minimum of 300 pages but realistically think can hit the 600 page Mark.

@Lost

Yeah! I love Lovecraft.

Welp, I took advanced writing so.........

a short story is usually a huge abstract metaphor for something else.

And every single line in the story has a deeper meaning and is essential to creating the larger metaphor.

If your story doesn't fit that than... it's just a regular novel.

Simple way of putting it: chapters equals novella at the least. Which, when you're bragging to your friends, sounds cooler than short story in my opinion. Heck, it sounds cooler than novel.