Greetings and Salutations, everyone. I’ve spent the past few hours going around the web, looking for free fiction online. I’ve come across a number of sites, and I’m going to share them with you. By far the most popular of the sites is WritersCafe.Org, which features literally thousands of authors and their works. The site is a very well put-together community with literally thousands of decent works ranging from poetry and short stories to novelas and epic-length tomes. The site requires you to create a membership, but what you get in return is priceless. So long as you can sort through all of the offal. Secondly, there’s the still-fledging WebfictionGuide.Com, which I personally visit and participate in their discussion forums. Children of the Halo just happens to be listed on the site. The site is run by a number of dedicated staff, and as an added bonus, has a rating and review system in place for every entry in their listings. I wholly endorse this site for its content and what it represents to the still-growing online fiction publishing community. I’ve been an active member for some time, and I plan on doing some online fiction reviews once I get around to reading someone else’s work. Lastly, I’d like to point your attention to *.fiction, Web Author Scott McKenzie’s project designed to help showcase the work of internet authors. I’ve just recently been turned on to this project, and I’m planning on tossing an entry his way. The idea seems simple enough. The book will be made available on Lulu.Com, and it will feature 15 short stories by web authors. All royalties made will be put right back into promotion. I’m all for this idea. Online fiction doesn’t get enough mass press representation. A project like this might just put it into the limelight, and open up readers the world over to whole new worlds that they may never have come across otherwise. A beautiful idea if you ask me. That being said, the future remains to be seen, but if the music industry’s any indicator, the future of books are going to start looking a lot brighter.