Tag: short stories

BentoComics.com – Princess Zelda

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Ah, the last story in this series. It happens to be a short story I did for a video-game anthology, based on Princess Zelda from the “Legend of Zelda” Nintendo Gaming series. Now, as a fan tribute it’s good fun, but because I don’t own this property, I’m just going to put it up on Bento Comics and let people read it (but not print it).

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 short story seen from the perspective of Princess Zelda, and the wishes she makes to the Goddesses of Hyrule.

E-book: None, I’m afraid. It’s not my own property, so no e-book.

 
 

Princess Zelda
Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!

 
 

Well, this concludes my pick of short stories from the “Queenie Chan Archive” back on my website. It’s good to be back on my LiveJournal again, so I hope to be able to continue my weekly streak of posting something up. I’ve been working on a bunch of interesting things since the second Odd Thomas book ended, so watch this space for interesting developments.

 

BentoComics.com – A Short Ghost Story

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Well, this weekly run of uploading comics to Bento Comics is coming to a close. After this story, there’s only one more story before the whole 8-week run is over. It actually felt like a really, really long time.

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: One of my earliest stories, but one which still holds some power. Why is it that ghost stories always happen in girl’s toilets? Here’s one that I heard from my sister many years ago.

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.

 

A Short Ghost Story

Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!

 

I wrote this story after hearing a similar story from my sister, involving a girl’s school toilets that had no mirrors. It was the only toilets in the school with no mirrors, so naturally people “talked” about it. Girls seem to love telling ghost stories about isolated places in the school, and my own high school experiences were no different, except that no memorable stories came out of my high school stint.

 

BentoComics.com – The Two-Dollar Deal

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Wahaay! Two more stories until I end my weekly run of uploading comics to Bento Comics, and this week is a 2006 romance story I did for “Generation” anthology, only 8 pages long. It’s been up on this LJ before, but here it is once again for those who missed it the first time around.

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: Romance in a tacky two-dollar store. Can it happen?

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.

 

The Two Dollar Deal

Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!

 

I wrote this story after discovering that a co-worker at a video-game company I worked at also worked part-time at a two-dollar store. It was quite surprising – she used to bring these tacky yellow rubber chickens to work as a gag, and I used to wonder where she got so many of them. But then I knew. Thinking of all that junk in a two-dollar store prompted me to write this story, which is still one of my favourites.

 

BentoComics.com – Portrait of a Sociopath

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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.

 

Portrait of a Sociopath

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.