About the Story Kettle updated on 2012-01-01

About this site – This site is called the Story Kettle. It is full of stories written by me, Michael M Wayman – hundreds of stories, long, short and very short. Try the excerpts.
I write short stories and very short stories; mostly humorous, sometimes sad; not extraordinary but not ordinary; about ordinary people doing unordinary things; sometimes in German. My blog and contact details.

About the stories – Many of my stories are short or very short – see the collections at Shorts and Treacle and OTTer and the site map. Some are funny, some are sad, some are absurd, most are unordinary. Some of my stories are long, they are long series of short stories, multi-part stories, such as Colin and his life and Cuthbert and his harem. Copyright – All material on this website is copyrighted. All rights reserved.

Correct English – I try to write good English, however not “Correct English”, more English as she is spoken and of course “Creative English” You won't find much “whom nor” and “It is I” and “my friends and I” here.

Contact me – at contact me or is that too difficult?

German content Some of the stories are written in German. This is not a bilingual site - most of the content is English and some is German. There is very little overlap. Click on the German flag for the list of all the German stories. Stories from different viewpoints and language are Frau Alpert and the story of Fay.
Ich schreibe Kurzgeschichten und sehr Kurzgeschichten; meist komisch, manchmal traurig; nicht außergewöhnlich aber nicht gewöhnlich; auf Englisch, manchmal auf Deutsch. Es gibt Sammlungen von Kurzgeschichten – siehe Sitemap. Es gibt Langgeschichten die aus Kurzgeschichten bestehen – siehe GOOD READ – Beispiele sind Frau Alpert und Cuthbert.

Goals – I want people in the whole world to read my stories. Secondary goals are to find a publisher, use advertising to help pay the costs, and to gain feedback from the readers.

GOOD READ – My longer multi-part stories are described at a good read.

Home page – Click on the black kettle at the top left of every page to reach the home page. However there is black kettle at the top left of the home page.

How is this website put together?

• general stuff is here on this page
• website structure in three levels
• page formats in on the page
• practical tools in my web tools
• writing a story in story in twelve hours
• more on icons and colours and special characters
• software links and web design links

Links to other sites – selected links and top ten links and links.

Link to me – Do you want to link to this site?

Link to you – Do you want a link to your site? Then contact me!
Acceptable links are humour for links, selected topics for selected links and of course to stories.

Men stories are Colin, Cuthbert, Toby and b.

Offcuts – I have a large collection of bits and pieces, miscellaneous, odds and ends, jumble, all sorts, this and that, odds and sods, left overs, sundries, other bits, bits and bobs, titbits, snippets, words, pictures, tips, recipes. Some are even stories, most are what Big Tone would call “Pieces Of Nonsense”. Try offcuts for the newest offcuts and index of titles and links and top ten links.

Privacy – This site uses no cookies, maintains no database, collects no personal data (other than standard server logs and emails), and forwards no personal data to others.
This site uses standard server logs and GoogleAds and Facebook like buttons. If you have any questions or comments about this site's Privacy Policy please contact me.

Publishers – If you want to publish or use my stories, then please contact me.

Schoolgirl stories are Jennffer and Doreen and Chardonnay.

Site Map – Please use the site map to find everything on this website, or a good read.

About me – I think that you are more interested in about this site above. My name is Michael M Wayman. You can contact me at contact me. I write stories. You can probably find my inner soul in my stories somewhere — just look!

About us – This page is normally titled “about us” but there is only one of me.

About you – Yes, I've written about you. You who read my stories. And who I think you are, but hopefully not who I want you to be.

After I am gone – If it were said that I wrote children's stories for adults I would not be unhappy.