Since Brief Encounter began in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine, and always appeared in either that magazine or its sister publications, this category is a part of category:DWM prose stories. Please note, however, that this category is complete. There will never be a need to add or delete pages from it. This series has been cancelled for almost twenty years. All its instalments are members of this category, as of 02:05, 5 September, 2011 (UTC).

Do not mistake all short stories in DWM as Brief Encounter short stories. Indeed, there are several issues of DWM which have had both BE short stories and one-off short stories.