You should make a concerted effort to read as many of these as possible, reading actively for things such as POV, story structure, character development, etc.
Online Genre Short Stories:
- Four Short Novels
- Lydia's Body by Vylar Kaftan
- The Other Amazon by Jenny Davidson
- Magnificent Pigs by Cat Rambo
- Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery by John Schoffstall
- Start With Color by Bill Kte'pi
- You Can Walk on the Moon if the Mood's Right by Bill Kte'pi
- 2:30 by Leslie What
- The Jenna Set by Daniel Kaysen
McSweeny's Internet Tendency Stories (very short):
- AN OPEN LETTER OF APOLOGY TO THE COUNTRY OF ICELAND
- ROUNDER CHARACTERS IN NO TIME FLAT!
- EIGHT NEW ENTRIES IN THE 2007 WRITER'S MARKET GUIDE TO LITERARY JOURNALS.
- WHAT I WOULD BE THINKING ABOUT IF I WERE BILLY JOEL DRIVING TOWARD A HOLIDAY PARTY WHERE I KNEW THERE WAS GOING TO BE A PIANO.
- ON BEING A CANDIDATE TO TAKE OVER A LATE-NIGHT NETWORK TALK SHOW.
- "HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A BABY? "
- REJECTED AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS SUBMISSIONS, AS LOGGED BY JUNIOR PRODUCTION ASSISTANT INTERN KENNETH POLK.
- I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE TO THE CLASS.
- I'M STARTING TO SUSPECT THAT A DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS PLAYER NAMED "ELGDORF THE MAGE" IS ABUSING HIS WIKIPEDIA EDITORIAL PRIVILEGES.
Online "Literary" Short Stories:
- Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood
- She Wasn't Soft by T.C. Boyle
- Guts by Chuck Palahniuk (**NB: I'm not quite sure if I can count this as literary, but there's no better place for it... but it's VERY graphic--don't read if you have a weak stomach)
- Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff
- A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
- Where are you Going? Where have you Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
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I have to say that I really enjoyed reading Lydia's Body! The tension never seemed to die from beginning to end. I am so glad that you told us to read this because I thought that it was excellent.
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