: Re: How to create suspense in a very short story? I wrote a short story (900-1000 words) about a character presenting some election process and at the end, we learn that he got elected.

@Carla500

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This seems almost too simplistic to make a good answer, but if your problem is that you can't generate suspense in a very short story, make the story longer.

Alternatively, decide that the story is fine the length it is, and just accept that such a short story does not require suspense. The reader doesn't spend enough time with the characters to care about what happens to them (in this case whether the main character wins his election or not), or enough time in your setting to care about who is going to govern it for the next few years. But that doesn't make the story lacking, it just means its merits lie elsewhere. The "point" of a very short story can be found in some sort of twist or irony, in its comedy, or in the haiku-like vividness of a single well-presented scene.

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