The best way to understand what is required in short story writing is to read short stories by different authors. There are many good anthologies of short stories available in libraries or bookshops.

Thankfully, two recent anthologies of Indian fiction — both suggested to me by avid readers at the Book Fair — sparkled and may redress an imbalance noted by a literary friend recently: Jaipur, and ...

A collection of well-known fairy stories by Hans Christian ... a range of Reading and Writing objectives from the KS2 National Curriculum programme of study for English across Y3 to Y6 in England ...