Blog

• Consider starting your own fiction blog. Create one for free on blogger.com, tell your friends and family to take a look, and become a self-made literary presence on the web.
  
  

Author Website

• If you want to be a professional author, create your own author website to publish your short stories. When submitting work to agents and editors, post a link to your website to show them you know how to market yourself.
  
  

Online Magazines

• These online equivalents to traditional literary magazines publish short stories: Slope, Narrative Magazine, Mudlark, La Petite Zine, Stirring, Cafe Irreal, Evergreen Review, and the popular Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency.
  
  

Contests

• Several short story competitions feature some winning pieces online, including the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest in Carve Magazine and even the annual Writer's Digest Competition.
  
  

Sites for Writers

• If you want a fun and simple way to share your work with other writers, publish your short stories for free on writing websites such as storywrite.com and booksie.com.