This research examines "ways of cooperation the audience with the text" in the short stories of Zoya Pirzad from the perspective of rhetoric. The social transformations of the contemporary world have brought about significant changes in all aspects of social sciences, arts, and literature, and the aesthetics of literary works are no exception. As a result, different theories have emerged regarding the rhetoric of new texts. If rhetoric used to be about speaking to the present audience, today we deal with a sophisticated audience that is cooperated with the text rather than the author. One important issue in studying contemporary Persian texts is examining their rhetorical features based on the requirements of text creation in the modern world. It seems that traditional rhetorical devices are no longer sufficient for analyzing forms such as novels and short stories, and elements of literary aesthetics in these texts need to be independently and separately examined—a task that has received less attention so far. It appears that in the analyzed texts (a collection of three short story books), to cooperate the audience with the text has played a significant role in creating empathy between readers and narrative storytelling. The findings of this research indicate that cooperation with the text is evident through certain rhetorical devices in these texts, including omission, interrogative cooperation, gaps, creating doubt, delay, etc. It seems that these rhetorical devices can also be examined in many other modern narrative texts.