Where can you sell short stories?

Answer 1

Different writing sites such as Associated Content and Helium offer you an environment to write your short stories. Depending on how many people read your short story on these sites, you'll earn a small revenue - usually a very small percentage of the revenue that comes to these sites when people click on the Pay Per Click ads.

A site such as PatronQuo.com offers writers the opportunity to make money off their short stories by making an appeal for patronage. Technically speaking, the writer isn't selling their short story or any of the rights to it. Instead, the patron offers money to be showcased on the posted story page as a prominent supporter of that tale. The advantage of a site such as this is that the overwhelming bulk of the patron payment (between 70%-80%) goes directly to the writer being patronized, and all rights in the short story stay with the writer. The writer's submission is not cluttered with Pay Per Click ads, and the writer is provided with tools (mainly customized story banners) to market their submissions in the hopes of winning further paying patrons.

Answer 2

You can sell short stories to literary magazines, online publishing platforms, anthologies, or directly to readers through self-publishing. It's important to research submission guidelines, payment rates, and rights terms before submitting your work.