Have you heard of the French company Short Edition? They are posting stories with a one, three, and five minute length to read online for FREE, as well as in dispensers (vending machines). Short Edition has more than 100,000 short stories by 9,000 authors from classic literary short works, such as Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf. You can go up to the dispensers and select a short story. It prints out and you have a quick read while waiting for the bus, awaiting your friend to show up at the restaurant, sitting in a waiting room, or hanging out in the park on a nice spring day for example. Producer/Director Francis Ford Coppola liked the idea so much, he purchased one of the machines to set up at his Cafe Zoetrope.

I entered a short story entitled "Final Destination" in their Button Fiction Contest. The entry has been accepted and my story is available to read for free and to vote on. You can sign up with the site for free or use your Facebook account to sign in. So, please read the story. If you like it, please vote for "Final Destination" and then share the link with your friends. I would deeply appreciate it. If you don't like it, you've only spent a couple of minutes of your day reading my tale.

So, remember to Read, Vote, Share! Chant that mantra and follow through.