Fiction app Hooked launched last fall, aiming to reinvent fiction with short stories modeled on text message conversations. Next up: Letting readers write their own stories. That arrives today with ...

As school and work wrap up, crowds fill Tokyo's many bustling arcade halls -- not to battle it out in fighting games, but to snag plush toys from claw machines. In one of these gaming meccas in the ...

The best ghost stories are the ones that draw you in and make you feel like you're experiencing the story firsthand. Almost like you're part of the story. That isn't easy to do. Reading a scary book ...

Hooked — an app for reading bite-sized stories in text message form — is rapidly climbing the App Store charts. The app initially launched in 2015, but it started growing quickly last fall. Now, it's ...

Chat fiction startups have been exploring the types of stories you can tell in the form of text message conversations, and now Hooked is taking that exploration one step further with the launch of ...