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The phrase "a master of short" is not correct in standard English and lacks clarity.
It could be intended to describe someone skilled in brevity or concise expression, but it is not a commonly used phrase.
Example: "He is a master of short storytelling, able to convey deep emotions in just a few sentences."
Alternatives: "a master of brevity" or "an expert in conciseness."
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Keret House in Warsaw is one of the narrowest houses in the world and its owner, Etgar Keret, is a master of short works of literature.
His position as a master of short fiction had been advanced by Men Without Women in 1927 and thoroughly established with the stories in Winner Take Nothing in 1933.
The Widows of Thornton (1954), Happy Families Are All Alike (1959), and Miss Leonora When Last Seen and Fifteen Other Stories (1963) secured the author's reputation as a master of short fiction.
The story was then written quickly, finished within a week, driven, I think, partly by the rage over the election and partly by the sorrow of losing a master of short stories.
Rosa Liksom (pseudonym of Anni Ylävaara) is a master of short prose who offers snapshots, usually rather grim ones, of the lives of social outsiders and eccentrics—a loner in Lapland or a drug addict in Helsinki in language attuned to each environment.
A master of short stories.
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Mark Bittman, The New York Times's Minimalist and my cooking guru, is a master of short-windedness.
She is a master of shorter, abstract repertoire; Lines Cubed, i.n.k., and The Calling are among the dance world's most innovative partnerships between music, props, and movement.
But one wishes Ms. Welty leaned more toward Emily Dickinson, a master of the short-short form who was a virtual shut-in.
One enters instead the amoral realm of a master of the short sentence not to mention short words like "moll".
A master of the short story, Cheever worked from "the interrupted event," which he considered the prime source of short stories.
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