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For about a fictional work too small to be called a [novel] or [novella] - usually less than 10-20 thousand words and no chapters. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the short story and its form in other media.. If you are looking for a particular anthology of short stories, use the [anthology-book] tag instead.

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Short Story From the Seventies: Malign Meteor Hits Earth

Looking for a story I read in the early '70's, about an apparent meteorite that hits earth, it is broken up into glowing amber globules. It starts drawing more of itself together, and is exerting a ma …