Fiction

Fiction - literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature in the fiction genre include the novel, short story, and novella. The word is from the Latin fictiō,“the act of making, fashioning, or molding.”

Novel - a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.

Short story -  is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.s

Novella- short and well-structured narrative, often realistic and satiric in tone,