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.
Below is a guide to story lengths and how they might be named (thereâs a fair bit of overlap as research shows that opinions differ greatly): 1  Flash fiction: under 1,000 words. 2  Short story: 500 to 17,000 words. 3  Novelette: 7,500 to 25,000 words. 4  Novella: 10,000 to 70,000 words. 5  Novel: 50,000 words or more.