What is a short story? How is it different than a novel?

A short story is a form of text that goes through all the points that a book goes through, but with less pages. It is different from a novel, because The novel goes through chapters while telling a story.

eli whitney was an american inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. this was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum south.

well, there are online sites that can make it look like a texting screenshot, so u can make it like hamilton texting jefferson through that, and he can start with him being like, i know it's out of the blue, but blah blah blah