[f. STORY sb.1 + -ETTE. Cf. NOVELETTE.] A very short story.
1834. Morning Post, 27 Nov., 3/5. ‘My Second Love,’ by Leitch Ritchie, Esq., is a spirited, beautiful storiette, worthy of the writer, full of stirring incident and touching pathos.
1889. Farmer, Americanisms.
1892. Star, 30 Dec., 1/7. The new year will see the Penny Illustrated Paper well to the fore with an exceptionally attractive series of new storiettes.
1897. Athenæum, 20 Nov., 689/3. A well-established Syndicate requires storiettes of 1,200 to 1,500 words each.
1899. Roberton, Novel-reader’s Handbk., 74. Mr. Kipling has also a number of storyettes scattered through the magazines.
1907. F. T. Bullen, Advance Australia, xxiv. 261. There are … four serial stories … twelve short stories, and about fifty storyettes.
