Drinks supplied after end of short stories (5)
I believe the answer is:
tales
'stories' is the definition.
('tale' can be a synonym of 'story')
I cannot understand how the remainder of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tales that I've seen before include "Stories, perhaps tall ones" , "Stale kind of stories" , "Lies" , "Relations" , "accounts" .)