Mobile-first fiction. Cents per chapter. No data burn.
Text-first stories from writers across Nigeria. Read on your phone, pay with airtime, listen if you want to.
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[N_STORIES] stories · [N_AUTHORS] authors · [N_CHAPTERS] chapters published · Live on MTN in Nigeria.
How Storya Works
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Get tokens
Top up via your phone credit on the MTN marketplace. Nothing to install if you're already on the carrier.
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Pick a story
Browse by genre. The first chapter is always free.
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Read at your pace
Spend a token to read the next chapter. No subscription, no auto-renewal.
Worth Reading Right Now
First chapter free
Classic · 12 chapters
The Interesting Narrative
Seized from his Igbo village at eleven, a boy crosses the Atlantic, buys his freedom, and names the trade.
First chapter free
Romance · 8 chapters
[STORY_TITLE_2]
[One-sentence hook, present tense, names a place or stake.]
First chapter free
Speculative · 24 chapters
[STORY_TITLE_3]
[One-sentence hook, present tense, names a place or stake.]
Built for Slow Connections
Stories load on 2G. Audio narration and illustrations are layers you can turn on if your bandwidth allows. Streaming a movie costs a day's data. Reading a chapter costs cents.
Pay Only for What You Read
No subscription, no monthly bill, no free trial that bills you next week. You buy tokens with airtime and spend one when you want to keep reading. If you stop reading, you stop spending.
Authors Get Paid Every Time You Read
Every token you spend on a chapter goes to the writer (minus carrier and platform fees). Authors keep 70% of token revenue and get paid quarterly in their local currency. We learned the hard way that asking readers to pay for what authors needed didn't work. The people who finish a story are now the ones funding the next one.
Where to Read Storya
Storya is live in Nigeria, on the MTN marketplace. We chose Nigeria first because the things readers there want (short-form fiction, mobile-first, payable by the cent) are the things Storya was made for.
Write Serialized Fiction. Get Paid When Readers Read.
Storya is built around the way readers actually pay (by the chapter, with airtime, on phones). If you write serialized fiction, the model fits.
What you publish
Your own work, in your own voice. Serialized chapters, any genre, any length. You set the cadence.
What we add (when you want it)
Optional narration, illustration, and translation, priced per story. You opt in story by story. Nothing is automatic.
What you keep
You keep the copyright. You keep 70% of every token spent on your chapters. Paid quarterly in your local currency.