short short

plural short shorts

1. broadcastingA very short film, typically of a length less than three minutes.
2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of short short story.

   Fifty Short Shorts. An omnibus of entertaining short short stories by America’s favorite tellers of tales

   1945, Mary Anne Howard, Fifty Short Shorts: an Omnibus of Short Stories, Cleveland: World Publishing Company, →OCLC, front cover

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   Verga’s Wolf cannot but repeat her passions, Tolstoy’s Alyosha his passivity. Themes of obsession work especially well in this kind of short short.

   1982, Irving Howe, “Introduction”, in Irving Howe, Ilana Wiener Howe, editors, Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories, page xvi

   The most often cited example of a classical short-short, Petronius’ “The Widow of Ephesus,” is no rude prototype.

   1986, Robert Shapard, “Introduction”, in Robert Shapard, James Thomas, editors, Sudden Fiction: American Short-short Stories, page xiv