The answer is: true.
In general terms (and excluding forms of contemporary and radically experimental literary exercises), it can be said that short stories follow a natural and logical order. If one thinks of great writers who exploited this genre (Chekov, Maupassant, Poe, Kafka, for example) one could ascertain that their narrations follow this kind of order, even if the events depicted are neither logical nor natural.
According to philosopher, Gilles Deleuze, by natural and logical order in a short story one should understand nothing other than the flow of sequences setting up an introduction, a plot, and a conclusion that leaves the reader wondering at the end: what will happen next?