Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

Brand new stories, from today’s best writers written exclusively for Radio 4 – the home of the Short Story Radio 4 is the world’s leading commissioner of new short stories. Expect excellent ...

though of course you can base your story on something that has really happened. Is a short story the same as a novel? A short story is not a cut-down novel. In a novel the author has time to ...