You can read
The Foghorn by Ray Bradbury at The Fantastic Films of Ray Harryhausen website:
http://members.fortunecity.com/ymir1/beastfro9.html
Also
Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear at
http://www.elizabethbear.com/shoggoths.html
The Star by Arthur C. Clarke at
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/engl510/star.htm
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut at
http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=825
'Tis the Season (Christmas has been privatized and trademarked) by China Mieville at
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/ar...clenumber=9150
All Seated on the Ground (one of my favorites) by Connie Willis at
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0805/allseated.shtml
A Woman's Best Friend ( a SF version of It's A Wonderful Life) by Robert Reed at
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/reed_12_08/
Somewhere along the way this turned into a list of SF Christmas stories. The Star, All Seated on the Ground, 'Tis the Season and A Woman's Best Friend are all good Christmas reads.