storySouth Top Ten Online Stories of 2004

As chosen by fiction editor and publisher Jason Sanford:

• Terry Bisson "Super 8" (Scifiction.com)
  
• Jai Clare "Bone on Bone" (Agni)
  
• Xujun Eberlein "Second Encounter" (Paumanok Review)
  
• Alicia Gifford "Toggling the Switch" (Narrative Magazine)
  
• Richard Grayson "Branch Libraries of Southeastern Brooklyn" (Fiction Warehouse)
  
• Trebor Healey "The Mercy Seat" (Blithe House Quarterly)
  
• Dave Housley "Ryan Seacrest Is Famous" (Barrelhouse)
  
• Joan Shaddox Isom "Remade Tobacco" (Eclectica Magazine)
  
• Corey Mesler "Madame Sabat's Grave" (Pindeldyboz)
  
• Chika Unigwe "Dreams" (Eclectica Magazine)
  

The general public now votes to determine the winner from these ten through March 31.

I'm disappointed that Sarah Weinman, Duane Swierczynski, and Mr. White didn't advance, but someone named "Dave" did, and hey, so did the Boy Wonder.

All cheer-up sarcasm aside, congrats to the finalists. I applaud Mr. Sanford's efforts to promote reading online fiction.