Your story should contain as many as it takes to tell the story, no more and no less. A short story is between 1000 and 20,000 words. Anything longer is a novella or a novel. Anything shorter is called a short short story. If you are writing for a particular magazine, check the magazine guidelines to find out the length of story they need.
A short story is considered anything under 7,500 words, so your story should be less than that. Otherwise, it depends on the assignment - you should ask your teacher how many words they're looking for.
Short stories aren't measured in pages -- they're measured by how many words they have. A short story has 5,000 words or less, traditionally. Divide that by around 250 words per page and you have around 20 pages or so.
"Sesquipedalian story" has eight syllables.
300 words
It doesn't really matter how many words it is, and it doesn't matter how many pages it has as long as it has a strong beginning a strong middle and end, you can't time or limit a book to words and pages, just write the story and use your imagination, it doesn't matter how long or short it is a story is a story , write it and take it from there.
A poet does not usually use as many words as a short story or novel author.
It should be about something in your life that you love or someone you like.
it should have lots of describing words,adjective, similes, alliteration also it should make the reader intrested in the book
A short story collection typically includes around 10 to 20 stories, with each story ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 words in length.
You can use any words in your book or novel at all. You can make it do anything you want it too - it all depends on the plot and base of your story. You have the entire language to choose from.
An anecdote, a riddle, a joke. While a very short, short story could be told in 100 words, a written story should exist in closer to a thousand words. Most short stories for that matter are more in the neighborhood of five to ten thousand words.
It is not measured in pages, it is measured in words. 50,000 words to be specific.