I read/wrote/published them for years. Now I'm more heavily slanted toward the novels. Some readers don't prefer stories because it's difficult to tell a tale in so few words, and I can see their point. Big publishers don't put out anthologies much now. My wife is reading Alice Munro, and I might try her out. I've read the stories of Cheever, Welty, and O'Hara though not of late. You'd think short stories are tailor-made for e-book readers and for fitting into our crazy, frenetic lifestyles.