Semiprozine.org

The storySouth Million Writers Award is an annual award that recognizes the best online fiction regardless of genre. The list of Notable Stories of 2008 has been posted and the final ballot of ten will be posted on May 15th.

The following notable stories from semiprozines are available free for your reading pleasure:

Abyss & Apex

• “Snatch Me Another” by Mercurio D. Rivera
• “The Night the Stars Sang Out My Name” by Ken Scholes

Apex Magazine

• ““Scenting the Dark” by Mary Robinette Kowal
• “Organ Nell” by Jennifer Pelland
• “In the Seams” by Andrew C. Porter

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

• “The Crystal Stair” by Charles Coleman Finlay & Rae Carson Finlay
• “Architectural Constants” by Yoon Ha Lee

Clarkesword Magazine

• “The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black” by Jay Lake *(Selected by more than one preliminary judge)
• “Blue Ink” by Yoon Ha Lee
• “Worm Within” by Cat Rambo
• “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antartica” by Catherynne M. Valente

Fantasy Magazine

• “Erased” by Elena Gleason
• “Original Gangster” by Jim Hines
• “A Word Without Ghosts” by Paul Jessup
• “The Small Door” by Holly Phillips
• “Penguin and Wrenby” by Christie Skipper Ritchotte
• “The Plagiarist” by Alex Rose

Strange Horizons

• “Until Forgiveness Comes” by K. Tempest Bradford
• “The Secret Identity” by Richard Butner
• “Nine Sundays in a Row” by Kris Dikeman
• “Down the Well” by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• “We Love Deena” by Alice Sola Kim
• “The Magician’s House” by Meghan McCarron

Beneath Ceaseless Skies was also singled out as runner up in the Best New Online Magazine category.