Welcome to Short Story America! Short Story America is dedicated entirely to the short story, which deserves a return to the widely-read status this great literary art form enjoyed in its heyday prior to electronic entertainment. Here at SSA, you can enjoy both new and classic short stories, all of them being of top literary quality. Whether you seek short stories for casual reading, for the classroom or for the purpose of developing your own craft as a writer, Short Story America is a great library and bookshop for every short-story enthusiast. Here, the reader does not have to log in, but rather can enter, read the Story of the Week, visit the Classics Library (where readers can enjoy stories in .pdf format) and can purchase short story collections by single authors, as well as our acclaimed anthology series (signed copies of Volumes One, Two and Three are available directly from Short Story America). Volume One is also available on e-reader through Kindle.

Short Story America is a perfect home for teachers and students of short stories. The Classics Library contains hundreds of great stories, in free .pdf format for the convenience of printing out a story for class. This format is perfect for margin notes and highlighting during class discussion, or simply for reading and discussing stories while using a laptop or tablet. For cross-disciplinary study in the humanities, the Classics Library at Short Story America also contains non-fiction classics of historical and philosophical importance, like Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address, Jefferson's "The Declaration of Independence," Emerson's "Self-Reliance," Thoreau's "Walden," Frederick Douglass's "On My Escape From Slavery," and many other indispensable creations from the past. Even longer works of classic fiction appear in the SSA Classics Library for your convenience, including Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat, and even Harriet Beecher Stowe's long and important classic, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Short Story America is committed to continuing with the addition of more older titles in providing what the National Association of Independent Schools has called "a rich resource for schools."

Short Story America also features the Short Story America Prize competition in short fiction. All writers of short fiction are invited to enter. Stay tuned to both the "Contests" and "Festival" buttons on the main-page menu here at the Short Story America website.

Please relax and enjoy the short stories at Short Story America. We're glad you're here!