It’s not the easiest thing in the world to specifically define what makes a short story different from a novella, and a novella different from a novel, because stories of certain lengths can hover between some of these categories. Maybe a crude way to put it is that short stories tend to be a few pages long, novellas will usually be a few dozen pages long, and novels are often a few hundred pages long. If you're familiar with Stephen King, you can look at his body of work and define “Children of the Corn” as a short story, "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" as a novella, and Misery as a novel… though, of course, he’s got some novels that entirely dwarf Misery in terms of length, like It and The Stand, but that’s another story. Or those are other stories.
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