Here are some other specific examples of paranoia: 1  Loathing or hatred of activities you or normal people would usually feel comfortable in, such as parties, large crowds, and the mall.  Excessive worry about what people think about you, or that they are laughing about or whispering about you behind your back.
As a point of reference for the genre writer, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America define short story length in the Nebula Awards for science fiction submission guidelines as having a word count of fewer than 7,500.
The shortest type of fiction is the short story, which ranges in length from a handful of pages to over thirty pages. The short story has its origins in fables and myths, stories that were not sprawling epics but concise tales containing only a few characters and often a single focused message.