Short fiction site: posts vs pages

Need some advice before I embark on my first site. My plan is to publish a site of short fiction, plus run a blog along side it. I’d like to do this with one WP install (just to make management easier), and after poking around, I think I’ve figured out how to do this. I just want some validation that this is the “best” way to move forward.

For the blog posts, obviously those would be Posts.

For the stories, they’d go up as Pages, since they wouldn’t be changing, wouldn’t need to be broadcast via RSS, or anything like that.

My one question is indexing and tagging the stories. For index pages, is there a way to create them without having to hardcode them each time? Or can I create something more dynamic, that would pull from the database and generate all the stories that meet the criteria (say, genre is one). And what’s the best way to assign that criteria? Pages don’t allow Tags, correct? That would seem like the most obvious way to do it, were these posts.

Am I missing some obvious con to using Pages for this? Do I miss out on some kind of flexibility?