Do not. It’s already paid for, so keep it. You will regret it so much later on. Do what you mentioned and use it as a project bike, but hold it. It’s not like it’s taking up mass amounts of space in yoru garage. Even if you just cover it with a tarp, only to start it up every once in a while– just hold on to it.

I have always loved short stories, both reading them and writing them, for precisely the reason you dislike them. I like being left with possibilities and potential, and I especially like being granted the opportunity to use my own imagination as to what happens “next.” I’m trying to pick out some really good examples of what I look for in a short story, so I hope you’ll give one or two of them a try (especially the first one I have planned. I think it may well be my all time favorite).

Short stories, in my mind, have a greater ability to succinctly comment on the world around us. They are focused and precise. Every word must be essential and move the story forward, for there can be no breathing room, no place of rest. A novel simply cannot do that without beating the reader silly.

I always feel ‘cheated’ when I read a short story, in some way.