OOoh, yes...Double post but new subject... 

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Wikipedia describes Short Stories thusly...Well, it says other things, like 20 000 words, but this is what I was taught...
QUOTE(Wikipedia)
As a point of reference for the genre writer, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America define short story length Nebula Awards for science fiction submission guidelines as having a word count of fewer than 7,500
 
  
 Why then IS ONE 
INTERLUDE IN MY STORY NOW PAST 5000 WORDS??!?!?!!!?? 
  
 It was only supposed to be a short story in the first place, to get the damned thing out of my head... 

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Yes, I decided to do this interlude as a kind of pilot to the other end of the story, but still...I scared!!... 

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Pleased, but scared...
How's everyone else doing then?... 
  
  
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