Grim Readers

• Lori Palminteri
• Uncategorized
• May 4, 2015

Last year, my best friend Jimmy pitched me an idea for a reading comprehension web site for students.  Jimmy is a teacher, and he found that the reading comprehension sites available for teachers contain bland stories that make both teachers and students dread doing reading comprehension.

Thus, he told me he wanted to start his own site.  And he wanted to hire me to write short stories.  I’m always looking for new jobs, and writing short stories was my first love.  I said sure.

I started writing stories, but I kept having the same issue.  My stories were dark, and I kept killing my characters.  I told Jimmy I couldn’t write for kids.  My head is a graveyard of fictional characters.  He told me to send him what I wrote anyway.  I did.

He liked the stories, so he decided to change the genre for the site.  The site would be specifically weird, macabre, and grim.  He sent me all this literature on how kids love dark stories.  “What,” he said, “you think you’re the only kid who likes disturbing stories?”

That’s pretty much how grimreaders.com was born.  We’re still in the early phases, working out some of the kinks, but we started getting subscribers.  I would like to invite my faithful blog followers to check out my grim stories for students here at: http://www.grimreaders.com/

Any feedback is welcome.  As of now, all the stories are accessible without a subscription, but a subscription is needed to access the worksheets.  If you like the site, please share (especially with teachers).  If you like a story, please let me know!

Thanks, and stay weird.