Short Stories Online

[tamaranth]

I'm discussing the merit of the short story form with a friend, and am trying to persuade her that there is excellent short fiction both within the SF genre and outside it. To this end, I'm trying to rec a story every day. Have started with Kelly Link.

What next? SF, horror, fantasy, mainstream, historical ... I suspect the Interweb has a bias t'wards SF/fantasy, because of early adoption in the fan community, but the more variety the better! (Was just reading Emma Donoghue's fabulous anthology of historical short stories, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: that's the sort of thing I'm after.)

And if anyone knows where, online, I can find older stories -- the example that springs to mind is Zelazny, especially early Zelazny -- that would also be much appreciated.

Possibly quietly appreciated as internet access will be very patchy for the next few days!

So, please, recommend a story, give the link and a brief description, and your reward will come in Heaven cyberspace.

Comments

[nwhyte]

BestSF is a great resource for on-line short sf. There are unfortunately only three Zelazny stories, and I think the only good one is "The Man Who Loved the Faioli" - and even that is not very good.

FictionWise has several Zelazny books but no (separate) short fiction by him.