This study is entitled with The Role of Short Stories in Developing Reading and Writing Skills among EFL Learners. It focuses on the importance of short stories in EFL classrooms. The study is conducted at Cihan University-Erbil (CUE). The importance of this study comes from the fact it focuses on using a specific kind of literature in the EFL classrooms for the purpose of developing the reading skill and writing skill of the learners. It follows the quantitative and qualitative methods. The participants are75 EFL students at CUE. They were both males and females. The study has three hypotheses. The study concludes focusing on the importance of writing and reading skills development by using short stories. It recommends the EFL to pay more attention to the use of short stories in the EFL classrooms. This study is unique in terms of the outcomes which is possible to applied in other universities in Kurdistan Region-Iraq in specific and Iraq in general.