. This research is motivated by the role of grammatical cohesion in building a narrative discourse. This research aims to find the form of grammatical cohesion that is used to build the narrative discourse. This research method is descriptive method while the form is qualitative. Based on the data analysis, it is concluded that the short stories collection entitled Senyum Karyamin contain all grammatical cohesion markers such as reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunctions. Usage percentage of grammatical cohesion markers in this short stories collection is 69,5% for reference, 6,8% for substitution, 5,4% for ellipsis, and 18,3% for conjunction. Based on the data, the function of grammatical cohesion markers in short stories collection entitled Senyum Karyamin is to create a cohesive discourse.