There aren’t many places to sell short stories online. This can be frustrating for both writers and readers, as it means writers have a difficult time building a writing portfolio and amassing readers without giving their work away for free and then creating the expectation that all their work will be free in the future. Readers suffer, too, because they have to wait (and hope) that an anthology of the writing will eventually get published, which is unlikely because anthologies don’t tend to sell well. This doesn’t mean that short writing doesn’t sell, it does. People will frequently purchase short stories on Amazon and from author sites, but many of…