Stories {allegory}| can illustrate moral choices or life styles.
short biographical narrative {anecdote}.
fictional story {canard, story}.
Medieval sermons {exemplum} can have parables.
Animal stories {fable}| can illustrate moral principles.
Medieval satires {fabliau} can be on middle-class life or clergy.
Children's stories {fairy tale} can use animals, magic, and non-existent places or places distant in time or space. Fairy tale often starts with the phrase, "Long ago and far away" Fairy tales seem realistic but add miracle and fantasy.
gender
Often in fairy tales, boys do heroic things, while girls wait for rescue or support boy heroes.
speculation
Perhaps, updated fairy tales can use the phrase "Right now, right here." Updated fairy tales can use magician tricks, quickness, and distraction. For example, invisibility uses dark clothes, has quiet movements, has no smell, and uses tricks to distract or hide. Updated fairy tales can use equal activity levels for boys and girls.
very short story {flash fiction}.
In a setting, a character tells a tale, or a storyteller tells stories {frame tale}. Frame tales include 1001 Nights and Canterbury Tales.
ancient god, hero, and event story {myth}.
story {narrative, writing}.
Stories {parable}| can illustrate morals.
Long anecdotes {shaggy-dog story} can end absurdly or anticlimactically.
Narratives {short story} can have less than 50 pages or less than 15,000 words.
Stories {tale} can emphasize plot.
Stories {tall tale} can have exaggerated events.
sketched story {vignette}.
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