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!

It’s the ten-year anniversary of Strange Horizons, one of the longest-running and best science fiction magazines online. If you like to read quality SF short stories online, please consider ...

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

It’s odd to me that not many people agree: Short stories are ignored by even the keenest readers. A YouGov poll from 2020 found that just 14 per cent of people in the UK said short stories were ...

Short stories There is a variety of publications online that offer well-written (and well-edited) short stories.

Requiring little time investment on your part, they allow you to explore genres and authors in just one sitting. Want to delve in? Here are five* short stories you can read for free online.

Are All Short Stories O. Henry Stories? The writer’s signature style of ending—a final, thrilling note—has the touch of magic that distinguishes the form at its best.

September is Literacy and Heritage Month and in commemoration Nal’ibali is bringing South African families six free new children’s stories in African languages to celebrate and understand some ...

It's no mean feat. Lucky for us, though, some of the greatest sci-fi authors out there today have published stories available for free online — and you can read them right now.