Very good point! If you search hard enough, there are many, many online literary journals that publish their materials online for free! These include fictional and non-fictional pieces.

Some of those short stories I've read were even better than best sellers!

Other sources like the Economist is also immensely interesting at times.

EDIT to add: Here's one very interesting blog with nice stories. http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/

This post has been edited by thesupertramp: Jan 15 2010, 06:08 PM