In that respect, this paper attempts to investigate the role of short-stories in developing vocabulary of EFL learners. According to Hatch and Brown (1995) there are five essential steps of learning vocabulary: The first one is having source for encountering new words, the second one is getting a clear image for the form of new words, the third one is learning the meaning of new words, the fourth one is making a strong memory connection between the form and the meaning of the words, and certainly the last one should be using the words.