I saw this on Boing Boing and it’s worth repeating: Hugo-Nominated Short Fiction for 2004 is available online. Especially recommended are

• Jeffrey Ford’s The Empire of Ice Cream - it’s a shame to label this beautiful genre-defying story SF. It could just as easily be labeled romance, or even horror. If I were voting, this would get my vote.
• Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald - I read this with no idea about the anthology in which it originally appeared, but the story stands on its own even if you know its premise in advance.
• David Levine’s beautiful, fable-like Tale of the Golden Eagle.
• Vernon Vinge’s hard-SF vision of escaping a Groundhog Day-like workplace:
  Cookie Monster.