![]() ![]() My personal tastes tend towards domestic short fiction. I’ve noticed some themes and trends in the short fiction I’ve been reading. I think I’ve improved on both of those counts. I’ve also been working on not finishing stories that I’m not enjoying and not reading things that are too grim for my tastes. This is a lot less than a story a day but a lot more do-able and helps me keep up with what I’ve bookmarked to read rather than letting everything pile up until it's overwhelming. Instead, starting in 2017 I’ve been setting myself a monthly goal to read at least 12 pieces of short fiction. ![]() In the past I’ve tried to read a short story a day and I’ve never been able to keep that up. But I did come up with a scheme to help keep myself from getting too behind. I’m also seeing online magazines being more and more willing and able to print longer works.Īs always, I didn’t read anything close to all the short fiction published this year. There are still more short stories being published than novelettes and novellas, but the latter two are catching up, especially with the Book Smugglers novella line debuting this year and Tor.com continuing to put out a ton of novellas. I read many excellent fiction of all lengths. Well, 2017 was a shitty year in a lot of ways, but in terms of short fiction it was pretty good for me. ![]()
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