Useful modern short stories?

[Nadash]

Hi, I'm heading over to china in February next year, and was thinking of reading some modern short stories that will reawaken my dying Chinese vocabulary. Stuff that I'll use in everyday conversation of course--contemporary works. Any suggestions? =) My Chinese's level ain't that....bad. Slightly below moderate, maybe?

[leeyah]

Plenty of that stuff online, try： http://www.tianyabook.com 网络散文 不错

[trevelyan]

We have three stories with manually annotated mouseover popups and accompanying audio readings here, and are adding new stories every week or two. 20th century literature mostly. The type of stories Chinese high schoolers read:

http://popupchinese.com/archives/shows/short-stories

As leeyah said though, there's plenty of reading material online if you just want to practice reading. So you'll have to define contemporary if you want more specific suggestions. By itself that word applies to pretty much everything written after 1919.

[cababunga]

Just today came across this one

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dporter/sampler/sampler.html

Looks to me that this one may be what you are looking for.