“All short stories long.”
“Long story short: The end.”
“To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.”
“In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.”
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.”
“There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.”