Short Story or Novella?

I've been wondering if I should start calling my stories novellas instead. Sure, I have written some proper short stories, such as Skating on the Standart, the Anne Boleyn one, and several others which I haven't posted but might soon. But "stories" such as Cecily Trilby Birche are not really short stories. It'll probably be over 30 pages when it's complete!


 Novella: short novel: a fictional prose work that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. *

Short story: short work of prose fiction: a work of prose fiction that is shorter than a novel.*

So... short story, or novella? Technically I don't call any of my writings short stories, just stories, but that makes it sound short. It will take getting used to, just like when one's been pronouncing something a certain way for a long time only to find out that it's the wrong way to say it, but I do love the term novella. It sounds so French, even though the roots of the word are in Italian and Latin.

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