How do you write a short story?

Find some very short stories and see how other authors do it. Google's AI suggests these authors.

Lydia Davis is highly regarded, with some critics placing her above even the Nobel laureate Alice Munro for her mastery of very short fiction.

George Saunders is a contemporary master known for poignant, satirical stories that often run only a few pages.

Jorge Luis Borges wrote philosophical, labyrinthine stories, many just a few pages long, that are as deep as much longer works.

Ernest Hemingway was a master of terse, classic prose and is known for several short, impactful stories, such as "Hills Like White Elephants" and "Cat in the Rain," which showcase subtext and economy of language.

Anton Chekhov is often considered the master of the short story, writing hundreds of "slice-of-life" tales that get at deeper truths without relying on complex plots.

O. Henry wrote many classic, concise stories, often with twist endings, such as "The Gift of the Magi," which is ingrained in popular culture.

Ted Chiang is a celebrated science fiction author whose stories, like "The Great Silence" and "What's Expected of Us," are often short yet profound.

write that story! Write about a fella who has to write a story for class and can't figure out how to do it.

do the all the brain storming of ideas that don't fly,

put in plot hooks like dog has to be let out again! and my pen just died,

build up to the climax of the night before the assignment is due and the writer still has writers block

have the person show up to class with no assigned writing but having to read his story in front of the whole class---class staring / build the suspense of his blank sheets of paper.

have him walk up and run a monologue on how he didn't couldn't do the assignment and during his rambling he realizes the others think he is talking about his short story.

so he starts flipping his blank pages pretending to read while he rambles on why he didn't write a story and at some random point on page 5 says "the end" and gets a verbal A from the teacher--but of course she asks for his sheets of paper so she can write his verbal grade on his "written" master piece.

Cut out the adjectives.

You could always go plagerize a bunch of the 50 word erotica's on here and combine them into a short story masterba....I mean masterpiece.