Your short story should be 1–2 pages long.
Before submitting your story, make sure you story has
an exposition, rising action, climax, and a resolution
a setting, plot, and theme
imagery to create mood
a narrator with a consistent point of view
dialogue to move the plot and show the characters’ ideas and feelings
consistent verb tense
a variety of sentence structures—simple, compound, complex
correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling