This app will send you tiny short stories via push notification
A couple years ago, startup publisher Serial Box launched with an aim to publish stories in a slightly different way: tell a longer story by breaking it up into manageable, shorter stories, written by a team of writers. Now, the publisher is experimenting with a new way to deliver even shorter stories: via push notifications.
Since its launch, the publisher has released a number of serials in recent years, including The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, a fantasy spy thriller set during the height of the Cold War. These stories are structured a bit like a TV season, playing out through 10–13 shorter episodes, which cumulatively make up a longer, season-length story.
In a blog post, Serial Box says that it’ll launch a feature on July 9th...