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SEARCHABLE COLLECTIONS

These sites include fresh, contemporary short fiction from writers in our own time.
The New Yorker
Carve Magazine
Kenyon Review
Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine
American Short Fiction

These sites include collections of classic short fiction.
Introduction to Literature and Critical Thinking
Classic Shorts
American Literature
Project Gutenberg Short Fiction Collections

Looking for something a page or less in length? Check out these flash fiction online publications.
Flash Fiction Magazine
Flash Fiction Online
“7 Flash Fiction Stories That Are Worth (a Tiny Amount of) Your Time” (from Electric Lit)

If you want to create a thematized unit of short fiction, these collections will help you do it.
Gothic Short Fiction
World Fairy Tales

Looking for microfiction? Here are some great collections.
Microfiction Monday Magazine
“Six One-Sentence Stories” From Flash Fiction Online

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STORIES THAT TEACH BEAUTIFULLY

“Visitor” by Bryan Washington

“The Boundary” by Jhumpa Lahiri

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

“Now Wait for This Week” by Alice Sola Kim

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“All That Offers A Happy Ending is a Fairy Tale” by Yiyun Li

“The Woman Next Door” and “My Mother is a Miss” by Alain Mabanckou

“A Visitation of Skin” by Eben Wood

“Lingua Franca” by John Keller

“Bartleby, the Scrivener,” by Herman Melville

“He Has Gone To Be With the Women,” by Benjamin Alire Saenz

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FLASH FICTION

“Bullet” by Kim Church

“The Colonel” by Carolyn Forche

“Taylor Swift” by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Collection of Flash Fiction at Lithub

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