Hello all. I’m still doing my weekly run of uploading comics to Bento Comics, and this week I’m pulling out something from my computer that’s been there for ages – a short 2-page story that somehow requires an entire essay to explain. It’s my first, and only, story that’s based on a real person and a recent real-life crime. See for yourself.
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: Everything that is said in this story is straight from the mouth of Steven Green. If you don’t remember him, he’s a US soldier who killed and raped a 14 year-old Iraqi girl and her entire family.
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.
Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!
The story of this is explained straight after the 2 pages of comics… it’s a rather long story, and in it I detail all the reasons I had for not releasing this story earlier. It’s partly because this story’s based on a real person and a real-life crime, and also because of the source – a newspaper article that later disappeared off the Internet. It brings to light the kind of issues we have surrounding Internet journalism… not so much with accuracy but with incorrect quoting.