I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
The world is always ending, for someone.
So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.