Who says storytelling can’t survive in the digital age? Presenting, for your reading pleasure, a brand new, never before released short story titled “Job in Williamsburg” now available for a measely $1.99.

It’s the tale of Ramón, a poor painter who wants nothing more than to be a great artist. He talks to paintings. Sometimes they talk back to him. A pariah on the local art scene, who thinks he’s just painted a masterpiece. But things do not go as planned. Go ahead: skip a cup a coffee, plunk down some change, and you’ve got yourself one hell of a short story. It’s available in PDF, ePub, LRF (Sony eReader), Palm, or Amazon Kindle format; think of it as a damn good punk single.

Click on these links to buy and download:
Scribd (PDF format) | Amazon Kindle | Smash Words (PDF, ePub, Palm, LRF/Sony format) | LuLu (PDF format)

While I’m still hard at work on the next book, “No Tears for Old Scratch,” I decided to try a little experiment. I’ll be releasing a single-story e-book download each month, all priced at $1.99. I’ll eventually release most of them in a single trade paperback collection. But with publishing models being stood on their head in the digital age, I don’t have to wait to get these stories into your hands (or hard drives in this case). It’s all part of my firm belief that as e-books, portable reading devices, and universal e-book file formats will be good for authors. Shorter content will become more popular again. Short stories will come back in the same way that singles came back for music, and the old pariah of the publishing world might just regain its luster.

A brand new short story, available for $1.99.