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.
Some of the most common saw characters repeatedly make last-ditch efforts to save their skin when something is wrong. There are three books in The Hunger Games series which, according to Slate, have a very similar word count of 101,200 words, 101,900 words, and 102,700 words. In comparison the books in the Harry Potter series varies considerably in length with the final Harry Potter book more than twice as long as the first.