Short+Story+Genres+for+Fiction

Seven Stories Short Stories Short Story Genres for Fiction

**Genre Categories:**
 * 1) **Realistic-**stories that are like real life
 * 2) **Myth**-god and goddesses, origin stories
 * 3) **Legend/Folklore**-stories with partial truths, but embellished with extraordinary or imaginative events
 * 4) **Fables and Parables**-stories that teach a lesson or have a moral
 * 5) **Parodies and Satires**-stories that are based on other stories but have a humorous or sarcastic twist
 * 6) **Horror**-stories that are scary
 * 7) **Mystery**-stories that gives you clues to figure out something
 * 8) **Coming of age**-stories that follow a young person as they are transitioning from child to adult
 * 9) **Romance**-love stories
 * 10) **Fantasy** – stories that have characters or settings that are considered mythical or imagined
 * 11) **Action -Thriller/Suspense**-exciting and action packed
 * 12) **War Stories-**stories in the setting of a war
 * 13) **Westerns-**stories set in the American Old West around the 1800’s
 * 14) **Tales** - old stories, usually from oral traditions, with a magical or extraordinary components
 * **Folk tales-**stories about common everyday people
 * **Fairy tales-**stories about royalty (king, queens, princes and princesses)
 * **Tall Tales-**stories about a hero that is larger than life and has exaggerated events


 * Genre Styles:**
 * 1) **Science fiction**-stories with scientific components that are beyond current technology
 * 2) **Historical fiction**-stories set in the past often around an historical event
 * 3) **Realistic fiction**-stories that are like real life
 * 4) **Children’s fiction**-stories with simple elements written for children