Hi all! As per last week, when I posted up my entry about Bento Comics, I promised I would post a new short story every weekend for 2 months. So here’s my next short story, Message To You, which is a cute 4-page silent romance perfect for Valentine’s Day (or it would be, if it weren’t already April).

Rundown: Bento Comics is a new website that permits users to read and compile their own short story anthologies. It then prints the book at a printing company called Lulu, and delivers the personalised book to your door. A new publishing model, if you will.

Short Story of the Week: A cute, 4-page Valentine story about a boy taking a walk in the countryside, and encountering a… balloon. Will You Be My Valentine?

E-book: Available on the right-hand side of this page, where it says “Ebook Available in .epub!”. It’s DRM-free, and Epub can be read on all platforms EXCEPT the Kindle. I’d like to charge USD$0.99 for this story (like iTunes), but the system isn’t yet in place so you can download it for free.

If you don’t have an e-reader like the iPad or Nook, you an download e-readers for your PC – here’s 2 programs you can download: The Adobe Acrobat eReader, and the Barnes and Noble eReader.

 

This story was drawn on a whim in 2006, not anywhere near Valentine’s Day. Still, I like these two characters a lot (they don’t have names… “Boy” and “Girl”?), and it would be interesting to revisit them in their “every day” life for another short story. I’ve already posted this story on this blog when it first came out 4 years ago, but if you’re new to my blog since then, you may not have read it yet. Years later and it’s still one of my favourites. Ofcourse, feedback welcome.