{"id":4504,"date":"2010-05-11T20:19:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T03:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2010-05-11T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T03:21:12","slug":"cellstories-brings-short-fiction-to-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/05\/11\/cellstories-brings-short-fiction-to-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"CellStories Brings Short Fiction to Your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CellStories.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4505\" title=\"CellStories\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CellStories.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CellStories.jpg 250w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/CellStories-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cellstories.net\">CellStories<\/a> is a ridiculously simple service that brings you a little story each day.\u00a0 You just open up the link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cellstories.net\">CellStories.net<\/a> site in your cell phone browser and the story shows up, well-formatted and easy to read.\u00a0 The site was started by former magazine editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielsinker.com\/\">Daniel Sinker<\/a>, who has used his many contacts in the publishing field to acquire a continuing stream of worthwhile and entertaining stories.<\/p>\n<p>The main problem for me that this service solves is my inability to remember to keep reading long-form works on a cell phone.\u00a0 I just can&#8217;t remember to keep going, no matter what the book.\u00a0 It&#8217;s something to do with the small screen and my feeling that all handheld units are for very temporary work and pleasure.\u00a0 When I read long works I use a book or a Kindle e-reader.\u00a0 I have no problems with continuity there.\u00a0 But CellStories only offers short fiction.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the perfect little pocket literature gizmo.\u00a0 I actually feel a tiny sense of accomplishment when I finish a short story on my Droid phone.\u00a0 I feel that I have filled some time well that might otherwise have been spent checking my hair.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want some grown-up short fiction, try CellStories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CellStories is a ridiculously simple service that brings you a little story each day.\u00a0 You just open up the link to the CellStories.net site in your cell phone browser and the story shows up, well-formatted and easy to read.\u00a0 The site was started by former magazine editor Daniel Sinker, who has used his many contacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,319,209],"tags":[2478],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-technology","category-web","tag-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4507,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}