Zip Lit – Your free daily short story

We are giving away a short story which you can read within an hour – every single day from the 1st January 2010 right through to the 31st December 2010 – absolutely free.

365 short, compact stories which you can download and read on your computer, cellphone, ebook reader and even your iPhone or iPod touch.

Being a story you can read within an hour, the Sixty Minute Story is a great story form which you can zip through:

• During your commute to work.
• On your lunch break.
• As part of your personal ‘me’ time.

All the short stories will be made available on MeeQi and will highlight some of the world’s most influential works as well as some neglected classics by well-known authors of the past and the releases will vary across all genres and many will touch on timeless topics and issues which still relevant and exist in today’s world.

Stories will also be released with useful background information to commemorate important dates in literature.

Here is the first five to be released:

1. The Story-Teller by H.H Munro
2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
3. A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry
4. A Dog’s Tale by Mark Twain
5. Man who would be King by Rudyard Kipling

Daily releases

Follow us on Twitter @60minutestory or subscribe to our blog to keep up-to-date with news on all the free stories as they are released.

More about the SMS

Find out more about the Sixty Minute Story and how you can write and publish your own short story on the website: sixtyminutestory.com