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Many writers try to meet Edgar Allen Poe’s criteria for a short story. Often they do, but many times they do not. Some do not even come close as if they were writing according to their own criteria. Edgar Allen Poe’s criteria consist of being able to read the story in one sitting (1 ½ hours), is there a plot to the story? The plot is a series of events combined together to form a short story. The events are limited due to the length of a short story. Each event occurs according to its order in the storyline, also is the story believable? I will discuss whether the stories: The Found Boat, Everyday Use, The Worn Path, Blue Hotel and The Necklace meets them. The five stories that I chose to analyze all contain the element of plot. In the story The Found Boat, Eve & Carol two young girls from a small town enjoy riding logs down the river imagining they are in a large ship. The boys (Clayton, Bud, and Frank) always make fun of the girls calling them names until one day the boys find an old abandoned boat tangle in some old trash along the river. The boys and girls carried the boat back to town to begin fixing it. When they got back to town they worked all day and night to fix the boat. They all helped each other with some