Short Stories
Transtories – Google-Translated Stories v. 2.0
Both iPhone and hashtag stories are much better known than this literary experiment. I’ve been trying to use Google Translate a few times before, including Google-translated Day, but the feeling I always had was that it’s not there yet. But now I’m fully convinced I’m doing the right thing. What’s more important: it’s not too [...]
An Impulse Purchase [short story]
Will your Christmas shopping look like this? Maybe not this year, but it will. 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 meter-long model of a [...]
A geeky banner to Amazon Kindle Store which deserves its own blog post
Yesterday I’ve made this banner to draw attention of techies to my books at Kindle Store. I’m proud of it. It’s so shiny and beautiful – and links to short stories, which generally say shiny gadgets are not always perfect. You can read them on your Kindle, iPhone, iPad or BlackBerry. From now on it’ll [...]
Creating One Picture Story – a Step-by-step Example
One picture stories are extremely easy to create. Just shoot a picture and type your story using TypeDrawing application. This post is to share with you some tips on how to achieve a more advanced look. If you know what you want, it’ll take no more than 20 minutes. When you have an iPhone 3G [...]
Create Your Own One Picture Stories
If you own an iPhone and want to share with the world more than just pictures, try this: one picture stories. They’re extremely easy to create – and fun to do. What you need is one great application from the AppStore – Type Drawing. The app is definitely worth its price – 1,99 USD/1,59 EUR [...]
One Picture Stories: Where to Find Them
Now you can find One Picture Stories in many sites across the internet as I did a perfectly insane job of autoposting with a help of Mobypicture and Posterous. They are the two services, where I send an original, freshly made story from an iPhone. Please choose below your favourite source of One Picture Stories:
3 ways to subscribe to #1picstory
Yay, #1picstory is doing really well! Stories receive a growing number of views and retweets. Looks like this type of micro fiction is more appealing than just words. With every new picture created I feel better suited to continue the project. It becomes an exceptional skill, which combined with the ownable storytelling idea, is worth [...]
One Picture Stories – Stories Pictured and Written on an iPhone
One sentence description of #1picstory (originally tweeted here): A story written within one picture, created on an iPhone from a very first idea to a very first tweet. I started this new digital storytelling project at the beginning of a year. At that time people make resolutions. New Year Resolutions are good, because you can [...]
Interview: Nick Name
It’s my pleasure to republish an interview we had in early 2009 with Adrian Graham for The Digital Fiction Show. The original blog is gone, but you can read Adrian’s great stuff at Small Stories project. Who exactly is Nick Name or is his identity being kept secret for a creative reason? Nick Name is [...]
Mobile fiction – what is it and why is it at all?
Mobile fiction? What the hell is it? Another stupid name “invented” by a DIY author to describe his writing? Probably you’re right. But are you brave enough to give it a try? The fact that The New York Times didn’t write about it, doesn’t mean that it’s completely unimportant. What is it? Mobile fiction is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Zany Collection of Tech-absurd Short Stories
Please find below a full text of Court Merrigan’s review of my book Password Incorrect. I’m really proud of is as this is a first, and I hope not last, international assessment of the book, which I’m trying to promote to English-speaking readers without any publisher’s help. Court Merrigan Originally from Nebraska, Court Merrigan has [...]
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 [...]
Google-translated fiction v.1.09
It’s been eight long months since I started a litexperimental project called Google-translated fiction. A simple description is: letting technology, in this case GT Beta, influence the final effect of human’s writing. Major reason I’m running this project is to establish a presence of technological tools in literature in order to eliminate language limitations. Sounds [...]
Why #vss and #wpss are good for a writer?
For those who are not very much involved into Twitter literature: #vss stands for very short story, #wpss is West Port Short Story. Both are the hashtags used to spot literary pieces written by Twitter authors. Why are they so good for writers? They make writing easier :. You are constanly inspired by all the [...]
An Impulse Purchase [short story]
This story, published in “Password Incorrect“, is an example of how the consumer habits would evolve and what products could achieve the status of the impulse ones. This is not a pure imagination, this can really happen. An Impulse Purchase Balbina Wachowiakowa was doing shopping with her husband and son at the veryhypermarket. Their cart [...]
I’m starting a “Google-translated fiction” project
When I was thinking of how to attract absurd-lovers from around the world I had one big obstacle to overcome – my ability to communicate in English. My level is good enough to start thinking of an English blog, but poor enough to call myself “a writer”. I thought of a stand-by translator who could [...]
Best wishes shovel [3Google-translated]
This short story is a part of a Google-translated fiction project (GT fiction). This translation was made by Google, from Polish to English, then from English to Polish, then from Polish to English. That’s why it’s described as 3Google-translated. Best wishes shovel Slawek Przekośniak got to wiligię SMS wishes: “I wish you good ping fajno [...]
Best wishes spade [1Google-translated]
This short story is a part of a Google-translated fiction project (GT fiction). This translation was made by Google, from Polish to English, once. That’s why you see the description: 1Google-translated. Best wishes spade Slawek Przekośniak got to wiligię SMS wishes: “I Zycze good ping fajno new. Do not know who sent him this surprisingly [...]
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