Want to delve in? Here are five* short stories you can read for free online. 1. “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” by Flannery O’Connor, 1953 ...

Short stories are a wonderful look into quality and brevity. Read Next. Culture ... and evidence of ways in which words on a page (or a screen – there’s a load of free short stories online) ...

Unfortunately, it’s not as easy to find short story sources for mysteries and romances. While publications such as The Strand Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine offer online excerpts ...

This Halloween, get cozy and get spooked with these free short stories from horror writers like Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and Edgar Allan Poe.

If you like to read quality SF short stories online, please consider donating to them! Image by Malcolm McClinton, via Strange Horizons Strange Horizons’ new editor-in-chief, Niall Harrison, writes: ...

May is short story month! Celebrate by reading a great Canadian short story. This list was originally curated by writer Kevin Hardcastle in 2020, and has been updated for 2024!

Short stories are the perfect medium for science fiction. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a space opera as much as the next nerd—but there's something about short-form sci-fi that has the ...

The Eugene Short Story Dispenser prints 2,000-3,000 stories a month for travelers. ... Eugene's Mahlon Sweet Field is home to a vending machine that dispenses free short stories, ...