A strange new spin on the vending machine has cropped up in the city of Grenoble: instead of dispensing soda and snacks, these sleek orange and black machines print out free short stories. Conceived ...

You could scroll Instagram or text friends while waiting at the bar. Why not read a short story instead? That's the idea behind the curious new machine at Cafe Zoetrope. On a recent Tuesday evening at ...

The free stories are available at the touch of a button, printing out on rolls of paper like a till receipt. Readers are able to choose one minute, three minutes or five minutes of fiction, and, just ...

Travelers can find all kinds of goodies in airport vending machines – candy, soda, cosmetics, electronics. But in Oregon, only at Eugene’s Mahlon Sweet Field can an airport vending machine dispense a ...

Stories are shared many ways. They are recounted in books and magazines. They are read aloud around the campfire at night. They are randomly dispensed from stand-alone kiosks, doled out on strips of ...