Short stories, while not as popular in form as novels, are, in a lot of ways, more convenient. They’re short. It’s easy to read an entire story in a single sitting. Even if that sitting is at a computer, or an iPod.

Writer/editor/teacher Dan Sinker has begun a project called CellStories, in which he’s posting a short story a day at http://cellstories.net/. The reason, according to the Web site: “Because we still think the best place for something wonderful to read is in the palm of your hand and, when you combine the amazing technology of modern web-enabled phones and mobile devices with some of the best short-form writing around, something incredible can happen. Like this!”

Up tomorrow: A short story from Trailer Girl and Other Stories, by Terese Svoboda, a Bison Books edition of which is forthcoming in December. I know what my lunchtime reading will be tomorrow.

For a links to previous CellStories, visit Dan Sinker’s Twitter page.