How old are short stories? Short fiction is as old as humankind. Novels are the new fang-dangled thing. The first short tales were oral. Storytellers often used rhyme to memorise stories. One the earliest still surviving tales is “The Shipwrecked Sailor” written on papyrus in Egypt around 2000 BCE. The Greek Aesop’s fables, the first … Continue reading Why do you love short stories?