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Free short stories with translations by great authors
You can buy these in book form, but the publisher offers them (and English translations) free!
Here in Japanese https://tree-novel.com/works/56b29b872d9162b106944778419a486f.html
With professional translations in English here: https://tree-novel.com/works/8afc163032cd84182a298eaa9bb432e0.html
These are 100 short stories by 100 different authors, written from the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors are pretty well known, for example the first one is written by the author of かがみの孤城. The stories are generally uplifting or humorous, there are some mini crime stories, etc. but the pandemic theme is generally present throughout. However, it's great to read at least some of them for several reasons:
The difficulty swings a lot from story to story, perhaps 25-32+, but they are short so it didn't bother me.
I haven't read all of them, but I thought it would be helpful to put this out so others can find them! See the related Story for You series, which has a similar concept but is targeted to children: full furigana, also with translations, also free on the publisher's site.