Short entertaining story (8)
I believe the answer is:
anecdote
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">short entertaining story</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for anecdote that I've seen before include "Reminiscence, story" , "Short entertaining story" , "One acted (anag) - amusing reminiscence" , "Yarn" , "One acted over interesting story" .)