The Front Porch Journal is an online literary magazine published by Texas State University in San Marcos. They publish three or four times a year, with a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, book reviews, and interviews, including audio and video features from time to time. They’ve been publishing since 2006 and the current issue online (as of this writing) is Number 18. This issue has two fiction pieces, Louanne’s Baby by Jacqueline Doyle, and Moth by Zoe Miller. Check t

There are a number of really good places to find short fiction online, and Fifty-Two Stories is one of them. You should definitely bookmark www.fiftytwostories.com and check them out. With a new short story every week, sponsored by Harper Perennial books, this is a great place to find something fresh and new. The current story, The Cure, is by Rahul Mehta, and is an excerpt from his forthcoming short fiction collection, Quarantine: Stories. The first lines of The Cure: I told

Instead of just posting ONE story to read online (which will likely be what I do, most Wednesday mornings) I thought I would start with posting a whole site: The short fiction section at a website called East of the Web. What caught my eye, here, is the treatment of each story as a sort of mini-book…each with a cover and synopsis, ready to be perused and read. As we move deeper into a digital age, it seems to me that THIS will be the direction short fiction takes, even within

If you are like me, and I’m not assuming that you ARE, you’ve read–at some point in your life–a self-help style book about finding your “calling” or identifying the “work you were made to do”. All fine things, really: There is a lot to be said for doing work that brings you joy and helps you identify as a part of something bigger than yourself. Inevitably, the self-help folks have you do something like this: close your eyes and imagine the PERFECT day. What would you do durin