Every Day Fiction: Short stories in your e-mail box daily
Sites such as DailyLit send you parts of entire books, via e-mail or RSS. But how about a daily site that instead would specialize in short stories?
“Every Day Fiction’s goal is publish a new story every day that you can read in 20 minutes or less,” says the Canadian-based site, which will officer its first story on September 1, Andrew LeBlanc’s “Scientists.”
Mix of old pros and newbies—and many genres
“We have a nice mix of first time writers and seasoned pros, writing in genres as diverse as fantasy, contemporary literary fiction, humor, and more,” the site says. “What these stories all have in common is stylish writing, vivid characterization, and stunning imagination.”
Every Day Fiction’s staff is young with relevant backgrounds in such areas as English lit and Web design. The biz plan appears to be ad support, with small payments for contributors, and the site will be blog-centered and encourage discussions among readers.
Yes, you, too, can submit a story for consideration.
Here’s the RSS feed. And ahead is a repro of the site’s schedule:
| Sept 1 | Andrew LeBlanc | Scientists |
| Sept 2 | Jeanne Holtzman | How’s the Beef |
| Sept 3 | Sarah Hilary | Lolita’s Lynch Mob |
| Sept 4 | Peter Tupper | Rootless |
| Sept 5 | Michael D. Turner | Teller of Tales |
| Sept 6 | K. A. Patterson | The Mud Room |
| Sept 7 | James Boone Dryden | In A Flash |
| Sept 8 | Ryan Fowler | Chasing Ghosts in Black Holes |
| Sept 9 | Suanne Warr | Sweet Revenge |
| Sept 10 | Beth Langford | I Quit! |
| Sept 11 | Katherine Shaw | Sawmill Road |
| Sept 12 | Heidi Ruby Miller | The Surrender |
| Sept 13 | River T. Huffman | The Reliever |
| Sept 14 | Martha Conte | Second Time Around |
| Sept 15 | John M. Whalen | The Dacuna |
| Sept 16 | Resha Caner | If You Can’t Beat Big Brother, Annoy Him |
| Sept 17 | Lyndon Perry | Spam Fiction |
| Sept 18 | Scurvy Bastard | The Threshold |
| Sept 19 | Kathleen Mack | Truth |
| Sept 20 | Anthony J. Rapino | The Transformation |
| Sept 21 | Avis Hickman-Gibb | The Lesson |
| Sept 22 | Selena Thomason | Anonymous |
| Sept 23 | Mike Hood | The Therapist’s Apprentice |
| Sept 24 | Christopher Kastensmidt | Between the “Sheets” |
| Sept 25 | Oonah V Joslin | The Higgs Boson |
| Sept 26 | Ernest Dempsey | The Soul of Judas |
| Sept 27 | Ed Morawski | Invasion |
| Sept 28 | Amy Silver | Kitty |
| Sept 29 | R. L. Copple | The Cold Truth |
| Sept 30 | Michael A. Kechula | Transformations |
Thought: How about e-book anthropologies of stories in various categories? With blog-to-book-style programs, this could be done fairly easily. Best of all, the content would have been selected and edited in advance by qualified editors, meaning better QC than in the case of the typical blog-books, aka blogs. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Every Day site forging an alliance with a print-on-demand company, by the way, if this hasn’t happened already.
(Big thanks to Bill Monks for the find. )
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