Do you know what Quarterreads.com is? The site was created a few months ago as a market for fiction, nonfiction and poetry. It's not exactly a zine, though: it's a very interesting initiative that seems to be in the middle of the way between crowdfunding initiatives and free reading magazines. Or, as the site describes more gracefully: "We like to think of ourselves as something in between the two extremes of tightly curated magazines and free-for-all self-publishing." The bottom line: micropayments for the writers.

Micropayments aren't a new thing at all, but I checked them and I liked what I saw: if you are a reader, you can login without cost and read one story a week for free. Of every other story you'll have only a preview. If you pay $5, though, you'll have the possibility of buying 20 reads (buying, not borrowing - the story you buy will remain open to you in perpetuity, and you'll never have to pay for it again).

Why did I say "possibility"? Because, ate the end of every story, you have the choice of tipping the author: you can tip her/him an additional, $0.25, $0.50, or $0.75, and all of the tips go to the author. (When you pay for a read, you pay $0.25, and of that quarter the author gets 88%, which is a a huge percentage. (It won't get any writer rich - not in the beginning, at least - , but it can't hurt either.

I experimented it as a reader and loved it. Then I submitted a few stories and got accepted.

Wish me luck - and, if you can spare a few cents, go check my stories there . There's unpublished stuff fresh from the word processor - and more to come very soon!