Share 'Do our short stories find the reading public?'

Yesterday Michael Haskins wrote a blog about short stories, in the middle of which he asked if our short stories were actually reaching readers. I can't get his question off my mind. We do see more anthologies out there, and lots of net mags, but he has a great point--who really reads them? He wondered if, because of the little or no marketing done by the publishers, writers are generally the on…