The short story Corporal is now available on Amazon’s newest publishing platform Kindle Vella. Corporal is the first published work of writer Robert DeSimone Jr. To read Corporal click on the following link: Corporal – Kindle Vella.
Synopsis: Corporal follows a soldier named Joy who spends his days drinking with fellow soldier Oliver, hanging out in bars, and indulging in any vice that he can get his hands on, all while wondering what kind of future he could possibly be making for himself. When Oliver suffers a bitter break-up, Joy finds himself at odds with the person who wronged his friend: a flashy, beautiful woman named Delight. 4-episode mini-series.
While Corporal was written as a short story, with Kindle Vella’s platform stories are told in chapters, or episodes. So Corporal will appear as a completed 4-episode mini-series. On Kindle Vella, the first 3 episodes are always free for any story on the platform, which means to read this story in it’s entirety, the reader would only have to purchase one chapter which is currently priced at 11 tokens.
Reader and writers are only able to purchase stories on Kindle Vella through tokens which are easily bought through the platform. However, once a user first logs into Kindle Vella, Amazon provides 200 free tokens to the user. So if you are a first time reader on Kindle Vella, you can essentially read Corporal for free.