Oxford English Dictionary defines the following genres as:
Fable - n, A fictitious narrative or statement; a story not founded on fact.
Parable- n, An allegorical or metaphorical saying or narrative.
Fairytale- n, An unreal or incredible story.
Dialogue- n, A conversation carried on between two or more persons; a colloquy, talk together.
Honestly, I do not think it is going to be easy for me to write a story using one of these genres. I am more of the type of person who likes to write in a first-person narrative. If I had to choose, i'd probably write a fairytale or a fable.
One example of a fairytale is the tale of "The Crumbs on the Table" - Grimm's Fairy Tales
You can find the story at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/
One example of a fable is the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" - Aesop
You can find the story at: http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html
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