Showing posts with label short-stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label short-stories. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 August 2009

Short stories on twitter


I love this challenge, issued as part of the West Port Book Festival - write a short story in under 140 characters.

Some lovely examples here (can take a while to load)


Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Post-it Note Stories

A very cool collection of stories illustrated by Post-it Notes, like this one The Four Minute Drug


"I knew this guy when I lived in Chicago named Dave. He was the underachieving little brother of a successful fashion designer. He was pretty paranoid and loved conspiracy theories. One night when we were out at a bar, he pointed to a poster of the moon landing and grunted. “Can you believe they’re still trying to sell us on that one?” he said."

Read on...

Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Fifty Two Stories

Really nice idea - a new story by a different author is uploaded to this site every week for a year. We seem to be about half way through...

For example, The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde