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Originally Posted by ctg  If one has written a short story and want to publish it somewhere? Then what are the best options |
If you want to get a short story published, it is the same as getting a publisher/agent for a novel. You have to study the market. Find the magzine, z-ine and anthology (Pro, semi, or for the love of) which will suit your story/work.
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Try to get it published in a commercial magazine
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Hard work, and even top Mags like Analog and Asimov's only pay 8c (US) a word. Yet, they are over subscribed with submissions. I feel the lure of getting a short story published in Mags like these is not for the money it is the fact that you have had your work accepted by publications that have printed great genre writers. To actually have the editor say, yes I will pay to print this is a hell of a feather in your cap. A few good sales to well known and respected mags/anthologies can go a long way to showing an editor/agent that you can sell your work, that people are willing to pay money to buy said work and publish it.
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or straight away dump them in some unpaid website (and hope to get picked for an anthology)?
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Not sure what you mean here, the three anthologies I have been published in, I submitted my work in the same way as I would do for a mag, tailoring my work to suit the remit of the anthology's editor. The stories certainly had not been hanging around on a website waiting to be "picked up" I had to sell them.