While there is some disagreement over the official length of a short story, a good rule of thumb is that it is between 1k and 7k words. Less than that and you get into the area of flash fiction. More than that and you move into the territory of the novelette {7k -20k} or the novella {20k-50k}.
( James Scott Bell )
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