It's still early days here in the UK ebook world - this blog has twice as many American and Dutch readers as Brits. However, Kindles and iPads are starting to appear on the tubes and buses here and one long-neglected area in the world of literature, the short story, is showing early signs of a new boom.
New ways of telling are emerging fast. For a different kind of short story experience, see US media artist Alan Bigelow's digital story site Webyarns. In the UK, Ether Books is a stylish short story App that publishes short stories by well-established authors alongside new talent, including Breaking News, the latest mini-offering by our friend Jacqui Hazell.
The current free offer at blackbirdebooks.com, The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology, is an anthology of 25 of the best short stories published on the web in 2009 and 2010 as chosen by the editors of the contemporary literary site Chamber Four. We particularly love and recommend the hilarious The Naturalists by B J Hollars (storySouth), the graphically weird and wonderful Watchers by Scott Cheshire (AGNI) and the sharp but lyrical poignancy of For The Sake of The Children (Night Train) by UK author Sarah Salway.
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