Literature in a Wired World

Below are a selection of online works broken up into more-or-less-descriptive generic categories. This list includes only a small fraction of the works online now, but should provide you with places to start your exploration of literature in our wired world.

ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES (ARGs)

• “Deleted: The Game” (http://www.deletedthegame.com/)

BLOG/WEB NARRATIVES

• “Slice” by Toby Litt (http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week2/)
• “The Fall of the Site of Marsha” by Rob Wittig (http://www.robwit.net/MARSHA)
• “Nothing at All (Here)” by Jeremy Hight (http://spoonriver.metblogs.com/)
• “Spoon River Metblogs” by Jay Bushman (http://spoonriver.metblogs.com/)

BRANCHING NARRATIVES

• “Fairy Tales” by Kevin Brooks (http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week3/)
• “The (Former) General” by Mohsin Hamid (http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week6/)
• “An Ode to Pants” by Chris Klimas (http://www.gimcrackd.com/true/pants/)
• “Twelve Blue” by Michael Joyce (http://www.eastgate.com/TwelveBlue/)
• “These Waves of Girls” by Caitlin Fisher (http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/)

COLLABORATIVE NARRATIVES

• “Your Place and Mine” by Nicci French (http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week4/)
• “A Million Penguins” ed. Kate Pullinger, Alison Norrington, Chris Meade, Christine Wilks, JOanna Howard, Kirsty McGill, Toni Lebusque, and Sue Thomas (http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php/Welcome)
• “Laurie and Carl” Reported by Sharon Melnicer (http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/writing.asp)

E-MAIL/INSTANT MESSAGE NARRATIVES

• “Blue Company 2002″ by Rob Wittig (http://www.robwit.net/bluecompany2002)
• “Kind of Blue” by Scott Rettberg (http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame/kOb/index.html)
• “Friday’s Big Meeting” by Rob Wittig (http://www.robwit.net/fbm/)

MAP NARRATIVES

• “The 21 Steps” by Charles Cumming (http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/)

MULTIMEDIA NARRATIVES

• “Fallow Field” by Dene Grigar (http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/grigar/fallowfield/fallow_field_opening.html)
• “Meet the Lucky Ones” Dir. Kirt Gunn (http://www.meettheluckyones.com/)
• “Lasting Image” by Carolyn Guyer and Michael Joyce (http://www.eastgate.com/LastingImage/Welcome.html)
• “Craziest” by Liz Dubelman (http://www.vidlit.com/craziest/)
• “Afterworld” by Brent Friedman and Michael DeCourcey (http://www.afterworld.tv/)
• The Center for Digital Storytelling (http://www.storycenter.org/)
• Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (http://www.yhchang.com/)
• “EPIC 2015″ by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic)

NARRATIVE GAMES

• “The Asylum” by Parapleusch http://www.parapluesch.de/whiskystore/test.htm)
• “Inanimate Alice” by Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph (http://www.inanimatealice.com/index.html)
• “Bow Street Runner” by LittleLoud (http://www.channel4.com/bowstreetrunner)

VISUAL/GRAPHIC NARRATIVES

• “Hard Times” by Matt Mason (http://www.wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week5/)
• “Freak Angels” by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield (http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23)
• “What If…” by Craig Robinson (http://www.flipflopflyin.com/whatif/)