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A short story has five key elements.

1. Characters A short story has few characters.
2. Setting Time frame and place constitute setting of short stories.
3. Plot As simple and as interesting as possible.
4. Conflict It is the struggle between two sides of the theme of the
story. Conflict can be between characters, emotions, beliefs or thoughts.
It gives life to short stories.
5. Theme The central idea or the main belief of the story is the theme.
Every word of the story should be written related to the theme. As a
student you will either be given opening lines or an outline of the plot.
You will be required to build the outline or the theme provided, into a full-
fledged story. You should try to make it as interesting as possible.

Sample Story Writing:

Develop stories from given outlines. Remember to give the moral of
the story in the end.
An old lady becomes blind …………. calls in a doctor ………. agrees to
pay large fees if cured ………….. doctor comes daily…….. Starts
stealing one piece of furniture daily ………. delays the cure ……… at
last cures her ………. demands his fees……… lady refuses to pay,
saying cure is not complete……… doctor objects lady says sight not
restored as she cannot see all her furniture ……………. moral.

Title —> The Missing Furniture
There was once an old lady. She meets with an accident and loses her
eyesight. She becomes very upset and calls in the most qualified
surgeon in town to treat her. She promises to pay a large amount of fees
to the surgeon if he is able to restore her eyesight. The surgeon visits
the old lady every day and gives her some medicines. He takes
advantage of the 2 fact that she is blind and can’t see anything. He
starts stealing pieces of expensive furniture from the house.
Content —> He takes away one piece every day. For this purpose he
delays the cure. When he takes away all the furniture from the house he
restores the eyesight of the lady.

When he asks for the fees, the old lady refuses to pay him. She says
that her eyesight is not yet fully restored. The surgeon disagrees. The
lady plainly replies that she is not able to see the furniture in the house,

which means that her eyesight has not been restored. The doctor feels