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The story

It is a small story in which one aspect of life is dealt with, independent of its characters and elements, complete in terms of analysis and treatment, as a kind of comic story, and its length is usually no more than a word that takes place in terms of its subject and characters, according to what we have mentioned of the general rules of stories. But it is the most flexible of all and is most accepting of exaggeration and imagination, provided that it does not deviate from the truth to the point of affectation. Comic stories of this kind come in different forms: including mysterious stories, crime stories, and adventures that revolve around one or more heroes. Including children's stories, the subject of which revolves around improving children's morals and developing their mental judgment. Including household stories and revolves around the philosophical advice given by the heroine to housewives. Including stories that deal with ordinary people on various topics at the discretion of its author.

And the story does not require a beginning or an end, as it may describe a psychological state that a person experienced during the moments, so if it was portrayed in an influential and suggestive way, then its mission was completed. It may deal with an incident that has a specific impact on a specific life, so that it has a beginning and an end, but this is not a condition in it, and the incident is its last component and the least of its values, but it must follow a strong and suggestive way of performance from the first moments, and it must rely on a verbal expression full of images, shadows and rhythm, because it is concentrated All in fast motion and radiant phrase. This means starting with a live point and expressing it with a phrase that has a poetic color as much as possible, because it revolves around one axis in one line. It does not include from the lives of its people except for a limited period, a special incident, or a specific emotional state. It does not accept bifurcation and digression into the circumstances of each incident and the circumstances of each personality if that directs attention away from the basic personality or situation. It suffices from this replete with the initial event that brought about all this, and confines attention to action alone without its consequences and its preliminaries, whether those preliminaries or apparent. So the story comes as an account of a series of incidents, not a detailed picture of one aspect of human life, including the various experiences and their number. And he chooses for the story an interesting axis in itself around which the incidents revolve. However, no matter how wonderful and expressive the short story is, it is small as long as it confines its concern and purpose to the incident or series of incidents, whether it comes in a simple, naive sequence, or is complicated, forming a plot that attracts the attention of the reader with its complexity and resolution.