A few years ago there was a website called QuarterReads. Writers could upload stories and readers paid twenty-five cents to read them, a read for a quarter.
The website didn't last overly long. As sound as the concept seemed it didn't really gain any traction.
Since then I've had a folder of eighteen stories which I had published on the site, and no real idea of what to do with them. Since discovering Hive, I've finally worked it out.
Over the next eighteen weeks I'll publish story each Monday.
Below is the name and a précis of each story.
1 - Incremental Enhancements: An augmentation package opens up unusual possibilities to a criminal.
2 - Out of Africa: In an alternate timeline a grumpy grampa remembers things from his youth.
3 - Youthful Indiscretion: When does a crime become a crime?
4 - The Bush Beast: In a world beset by trans-dimensional monsters what can one small group of humans achieve?
5 - Korea 1950: A photographer survives the Korean War.
6 - Birthright: A murder which isn't all it seems.
7 - The Hornet's Nest: A murder victim is the new home for a hornet queen.
8 - Leaving Georgia: In an alternate timeline America war is on the horizon.
9 - Draconomics 101: Like economics, but with a dragon.
10 - Earthborn: On Mars the last human to be born on Earth is still hard at work.
11 - Making Mischief: A tale of business shenanigans.
12 - The Shepherd: Do we really know who is teaching our kids?
13 - Tropical Bond: How we see ourself, and how the world sees us, are different things.
14 - Moving Home: In a post-icecap world one man struggles to sell his home.
15 - From the Stars: The warnings of an awkward student should have been heeded.
16 - Gaps in Knowledge: Two lovers deal with the memory lapses of one.
17 - Returning Home: It's okay if it's bad people who are, you know, 'dealt with'.
18 - The Unfortunate Demise of Absalom Fanty: The first Sar-Chona story, and that's a project I'm saving for later on.
I may even add in some short stories which weren't part of my QuarterReads collection, by virtue of having been written later.
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looking forward to seeing your pieces in the community! Welcome to Hive and Scholar and Scribe!
Excellent decision on what to do with them, @stuartcturnbull! I'll be sure to keep my eyes open for them.
I'm looking forward to them as well :) I have a series which is fully written (novel length) but I posted part of it on a dead and offline platform before I discovered how awesome Hive is, and became active here :) ... I reposted a few here when I started, maybe it's time to continue? It's sort of an action / thriller about a female botanist / adventurer and her best friend, a helicopter pilot. I wonder if it would catch on 😲
You should definitely share them, @wrestlingdesires! 💛
I think I will :) ...
Nice! Might be a nice idea to turn the collection into anthology and mint as an NFTBook once you're done. Happy to help with that process if you're interested 😄
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oops - guess who didn't absorb the community rules properly.
and thanks for the idea re the NFT. I will def require coaching on that!
No worries :)
The NFTBook stuff is surprisingly simple, compared to most web3 learning curves. Essentially you make a pretty PDF and upload it, then magic occurs. Obviously there's a few nuances involved, but we can cross that bridge should you choose to take that journey!
LOL. Ya gotta love that magic Web3 stuff. :-D
This sounds interesting, @jfuji. I'd be interested in learning too. 😊
hi Stuart, this is great... this is a wonderful way to give your content new life on web3. And sharing in Dreemport will certainly add more eyes to your content. I think as this is simply an intro to what is coming, with a listing of those works, some folk may have found it a little trickier to interact with the post ;-) I do hope we see those stories being shared in Dreemport too... I'm a sucker for a good piece of fiction !LOLZ What I would say to cover yourself is ensure that you make a note on each of those stories that they were previously published on Quarterreads which no longer exists (if that is the case) 🤗 Hope you have a lovely week fellow dreemer !PIZZA !ALIVE
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thanks Sam. The first one has JUST been shared to Dreemport and the pg-13 safe ones will certainly be my Monday post for the next few months.
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That one sounds really fun :)
I found your post via Dreemport 🙌
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I'm loving the list of stories you're going to be sharing with us. My mind is already taking in the ideas and playing with them so finding out how they turn out will be lots of fun. Okay, so I need to make a note to check in on Tuesday mornings, as my Mondays are usually busy, and sit down and read. I'm already looking forward to it.