Or are they?
I got this from another author's blog. He didn't have anything bad to say about the Chaos stories. Just that there wasn't enough.
The upper limit for a work of fiction to be considered a novella is about 50,000 words. Rebecca Danced at 78,000 words or so certainly qualifies as a full-length novel. I have a PoD (publish on demand) copy of State of Chaos. It is larger than a normal paperback and over 600 pages long! It's prohibitively expense to purchase (around $17 and it's a paperback) because it's so big.
So, at least by publishing standards these stories are right in the sweet spot, which was my target when I was writing them. Still, by SoL and other online outlets' standards these are almost considered short stories. Is 250,000 words the new norm? 375,000? 500,000?
I suppose any discussion of this would have to include a discussion on what's a story and what's a serial. I believe I hadn't yet written the final two chapters of Rebecca Danced when I started posting it, but it was certainly complete in my head. I'm pretty sure the other two were completely finished, if not completely edited, before they began posting. So even though they were not released all at once I definitely consider them stories, not serials. Actually I consider them "books" or "novels", not stories.
It's an interesting view on how online publishing is changing the way we think of these things.