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The Lit List
By Staff, The Lit List
Following in the tradition of other strangely democratic websites, the Lit List applies the popularity-based list mold to online fiction. Registrants submit links to fiction stories, and then readers give points to the ones they like. The higher the point total, the better the positioning on the website. New writers and old classics are all welcome here. -- Bennett Gordon
http://thelitlist.com/

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