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.
Most of the time, short writing is limited by characters. Longer pieces of writing usually use a word count as a limit. For example, a 500 word essay would be about a single page long, whereas a 500 character essay would be about 100 to 150 words long.