The Short Story Cycle

In ‘Only Connect,’ a short essay on form in the online magazine salon. com, Robert Morgan, the author of Gap Creek, suggests that the short story cycle has ‘the advantages of the integration and interconnection of a novel and the intensity and compression of a short story.’1 ‘Short story cycles’ may be the most common term for collections of linked short stories, but they have also been dubbed ‘novels-in-stories,’ ‘composite novels’ and, simply, ‘linked story collections.’