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.
Types of literary fiction in prose: Short story: A work of at least 2,000 words but under 7,500 words (5â25 pages). The boundary between a long short story and a novella is vague. Novella: A work of at least 17,500 words but under 50,000 words.(60â170 pages).