Mobile Fiction
Wishes shovel best
I Write Like says I wrote this story in David Foster Wallace’s style. It’s included in a free collection Password Incorrect. On Christmas Eve Slawek Przekosniak received an SMS with these wishes: Wishing yo good ping super new”. He didn’t know who sent him that surprisingly enigmatic message. And he doesn’t know to this day. [...]
Password incorrect
I Write Like says I wrote this story in Kurt Vonnegut’s style. It’s included in a free collection Password Incorrect. Because this story will be painfully banal, it will be also painfully short. Peter Maria Kedzierzyna of the Tschekan coat-of-arms bought himself the newest model of a 25th generation cell phone from Siemens-BenQ-Nokia-LG ABC 123, [...]
Puddle skin care
Dr Edward Perennial got his PhD degree in loyalistic algebra with considerable difficulty and considerable help from his brother, Dr. Perennial, who had gotten his PhD in loyalistic geometry two years earlier. And how it often happens with the less street-smart savvy members of the academia, Dr Edward didn’t stay long at the university, or [...]
Nose number 32
I Write Like says I wrote this story in Cory Doctorow’s style. It’s included in a free collection Password Incorrect. Jolanta Moczydlowska, a former model in second-and-a-half rate fashion shows, unfulfilled MTV presenter and three times married of convenience fulfilled wife, didn’t like her nose. Sometimes it was too small, and sometimes too big, and [...]
Childult
I Write Like says I wrote this story in Chuck Palahniuk’s style. It’s included in a free collection Password Incorrect. Benedykt Ossolinsky, age 39, began to grow childish. On the first day of his midlife crisis, he stood in front of the mirror examining his receding hairline and wrinkles on his face. In that very [...]
15 Free Tools to Mobilize Your Blog
Mobile web is growing at an extremely fast pace. Google says, that “50% of all new internet connections in 2009 will come from mobile phones”. According to the latest report by AdMob, data traffic created only by iPhone/iPod Touch has increased 19 times(!) from September 2008. Can mobile users read your blog? There are several [...]
An inquisition-style massage
The greatest hit of the new health season turned out to be an innovative type of a relaxing massage, incorporating, of course to a lesser extent, certain methods of tortures used on religious heretics in medieval times. The creator of this unusually successful way of reducing stress was one Antoni Elkbellows, a man possessing a [...]
5 Reasons Why Writers Should Mobilize Their Blogs
In this article I’ll try to describe how important is for a writer to mobilize a blook, blog or a site. In a next post I’ll give tips on how to easily do that. Mobile Web is growing fast According to a study by Morgan Stanley, there will be over 1 billion “heavy mobile data [...]
Short Stories Made Cellphone Friendly
I’m a mobile freak. As you might know from my Twitter updates being read on your shiny cellphone, a couple of weeks ago I started to publish my stories through a mobilized site. The project is called Mobile Fiction Stories (click for preview here). Every Friday I’m adding a new story, hoping that some day [...]
Kefir on a very bad day
Waldemar Szary, a food technician at the OSM “Paziocha”, was having a very bad day – the kind of a very bad day, which normally comes after one of those very good days. A day, when nothing works, and when life kicks you in the ass harder than your friends at work. A day when [...]
The robotic intelligence test
Anna was afraid like never before. Another employee evaluation day was coming up. The most important part of it was a test of a robotic intelligence RQ, determining the level of robotization of a human mind regarding reliability in performing standard tasks, speed of work performed, error ratio, length of work performed without the need [...]
An impulse purchase
I Write Like says it’s Douglas Adams style. The story is included in a free collection Password Incorrect. Balbina Wachowiakowa was doing shopping with her husband and son at the veryhypermarket. Their cart was already half-filled, and they only just reached the food section. “Mom! Mom! Look! Cubicar! Cubicar!” Rafik shouted while looking at a [...]
Happiness in a four-pack
I Write Like says I wrote this story in David Foster Wallace’s style. It’s included in a free collection Password Incorrect. A leading world corporation in the field of extremely rapidly degradable products, Hipsi Co. decided to introduce onto the Polish market a new, revolutionary product – ingestible energizing happiness, under the brand name Happi. [...]
Coma longer than expected
According to I Write Like this story has the style of William Gibson. Get it for free with Password Incorrect collection. It was on a Wednesday evening, during the seventh episode of “The Murderers from a Residential Cell”, when a handsome man from the early-reanimation unit fell into a coma, that is, he couldn’t be [...]
Mr Copypaste
I Write Like says I wrote this story in Cory Doctorow’s style. It’s included in a free collection Password Incorrect. Roman Fretard, known to himself as Gonzo, and to others as Tard wanted to make a career for himself quickly, nimbly and with all the effort comparable to a yawn. He thought about ways to [...]
An Orbital Flight With a Small Surprise [short story]
George Pearinsky was disappointed. They stuck him into this thing resembling a caftan, not a flight suit, and he couldn’t even take a photo of himself, but maybe it was better without one anyway, because in this vomit-green inflatable quilted shit, he looked like a huge pear, even though he weighed only 125.5 kilograms. “And [...]
The Third Attempt to Take the Teddy [short story]
Here is my #fridayflash short shory. The Third Attempt to Take the Teddy “Justyna, can I take Abrateddy to school?” Kamilka, a superfirst grade student, asked her mom while putting on her shoes with winter soles. Mom was surprised by this sudden question, her daughter had stopped playing with the Abrateddy teddy bear around the [...]
CellStories – codziennie nowe opowiadanie na twoją komórkę
O CellStories przeczytałem wczoraj na JestemMobilny i najzwyczajniej w świecie – zachwyciłem się. Jest to serwis, który udostępnia codziennie jedno nowe opowiadanie – z przeznaczeniem do czytania na telefonie komórkowym. Na pierwszy rzut oka: nic interesującego. Serwisów i blogów promujących krótką formę literacką jest dużo i można w nich przebierać, niczym we wtyczkach do WordPressa. [...]
Mobile E-books Deserve to Have Their Own Name
Everybody involved in a wonderful world of digital books is witnessing currently a huge trend: e-books become mobile. And it’s not just another form of an electronic book. It’s the new generation, which doesn’t have most of disadvantages of a first gen e-book. This is leading to one thought: Mobile e-books deserve to have their [...]
How to download a book directly from a tweet?
As a writer and iPhone addict I always wondered whether it would be possible to make my mobile books a click away from a tweet. I made a little invention today and the answer is “yes”. If you’re iPhone owner and have Stanza eReader installed, you can directly download a book from a tweet, you’ve [...]
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