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I'd say a short story is usually 10 000 words or under. Once you're over 10 000 words, you probably have a novelette, though it depends to some degree on the structure of the story. Does it have chapters, for instance? Is there a character arc? A problem, complications, a resolution?
Either way, whether you want to call it a short story or a novelette, I think you should be giving some indication to readers in the blurb by writing something along the lines of "a short story by . . . "
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