I love reading fiction writing.
I do to!  The writing is often produced as a story usually meant to entertain.  What type of fiction do you like?
Mostly fantasy, but it's all good really.
Ah yes, fantasy would be a genre of fiction, as would science fiction and mystery fiction.  I really liike mystery fiction.
Do you have any knowledge on how old it is?
I'm honestly not sure, but people have been writing short stories for a very long time.
What else do you know about them?
There is something called genre fiction, or pop fiction and it's written to appeal to a large audience - kind of the way that the Twilight books sold more copies that Moby D, although they are both fiction.