Here’s a direct challenge to those who say, “I just can’t find the time to read fiction anymore.” If you can’t handle this once every few weeks, you’d better renegotiate grade school.
One Story, in the words of its publisher, Marybeth Batcha, is on a mission “to save the short story by publishing in a friendly format that allows readers to experience each story as a stand-alone work of art and a simple form of entertainment. One Story is designed to fit into your purse or pocket, and into your life.
One Story is designed to fit into your purse or pocket, and into your life.
Each issue is artfully designed, lightweight, “easy to carry, and ready to entertain on buses, in bed, in subways, in cars, in the park, in the bath, in the waiting rooms of doctors, on the couch in the afternoon or on line at the supermarket.”
And don’t look for the online version: One Story, slim as it is, is a real magazine, and available only by subscription.
So, okay, slackers, no more excuses. There is always time to read one story.
