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New stuff 2023 and 2024

Couple holding hands going down a road, surrounded by diamond yellow road signs with different sign language characters

Signals with Love. March 2024. This is a non-fiction guide for communicating with love for neurodiverse/neurotypical relationships. Or any relationship, really. First published in Autism Digest December 2010 and revived for Dr. Michael Rabby's course on social media and relationships at Washington State University at Vancouver (WSUV) as I am an artist in residence at the Electronic Literature Lab.

black and white text showing yellow semicolon between game and social

The Secret Relationships of semicolons February 2024. This is a very small work dedicated to Dr. Michael Rabby, WSUV who hates semicolons. Semicolons have their place; you can not persuade me otherwise.

spiral and composition notebooks over branches with words Entanglements

Entanglements, Jan 2024, with Bill Bly (Twine). Two students at WSUV encounter a chilling image and one leaves a message: I don't think I'll be returning to class any more...Physical archives can be seen at the WSUV Electronic Literature Lab

A boy half in and half out of a ship's wheel, in heavy waves. Lines are Heaven expects, heaven waits, heavy woods, heavy rails

Consider the Sea, Jan 2024, with Rob Swigart (Twine). A rollicking tale of Finley who searches for purpose amoung sporting porpoises, rollicking pirates, drunk captains, and over the seemingly endless seas and deserts between Budapest and Cleveland.

The ELL2 Archive, 2024, Digital Storytelling Class 354, WSUV (Twine). Our class story where students encounter an alien and future students encounter the work.

Nigerian woman and baby with words The future she hopes for, The love she shares, The voice she uses, she asks.

The Water Seller, 2023, with Faith Bassey (Twine). In New River, Spring 2023 centers around Aiwa, a woman yearning to understand and to love.

Alive and Kicking (Still available)

Cold Calling, 2019, with Jon Saklofske (Twine and Raspberry pi/physical installation) is a mystery heard over the phone. Who dunnit and who heard it?

black and white drawings of an ouroboros and Tenniel's jabberwocky

Ouroboros vs Jabberwocky, 2017, with Stuart Moulthrop is on one side random whispers and on the other formalized nonsense using grammatical structures and far too many stable allusions

pixelated image of a woman chained to a rock

Andromeda and Eliza, 2017 (Twine), with Anastasia Salter. This twine work pre-dates AI, but has a (c)rude little bot just waiting for you to write. And don't you dare insult the Ruler.

screenshot of triptych--last lines in memory

Triptych, 2012, pdf. Uses a straight word doc as a hypertext--adding links, playing with the multiple layers in the comments, etc.

A victorian pixelated drawing of a steam engine train

Marble Springs 3.0, 2012, wikidot. When I was a child, I loved Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology, following connections. So then, I just had to create my own world, Marble Springs, a Colorado mining town where it could be ferreted out who the town whore's daughter's father really was. In my town, the links tell what cannot be put into words. Marble Springs 1.0 and 2.0 were hypercards from Eastgate Systems, and 3.0 is a wiki you can join in on.

A chinese line drawing of a fisherman overlooking a cliff, sepia, faint

Modern Moral Fairy Tales, 2010, HTML. is a very tight but complex interweaving of four separate story threads--from a sentient internet cafe to dissidents to salmon reading their newspapers.

Fundamentals, 2008, HTML. I really need to update this textbook on basic rhetorical moves in hypertext. The concepts and exercises are good, but the examples need to be updated.

Shandean Ambles, 2003. In Drunken Boat. I wrote this work with Laurence Sterne's ghost in his study. The work is stamped with his humor and proto-hypertext patterning (note: Titles were in Flash and no longer work).

Datafeeds, 2003. Shows the same event in three social worlds (the blind, the sighted, and the heartbeat-sensors).

The Pines at Walden Pond on a black background with a Trellix linking branch over a pine branch

The Pines at Walden Pond explores the woods around Walden Pond metaphorically and hypertextually. , 2001. Trellix to HTML.

Disappearing Rain, 2000. Is a mystery novel: Anna has disappeared and the only clue she leaves is an open internet connection. This is a complex layered work where several levels of kanji-kus serve as structure and framework. Come on in, the water's fine!

A spiral decision process: Needs, Objectives, resources and constraints, options, criteria and screening, alternatives, evaluation, decision, implementation, follow up.

Decision Process Guide, 1997-2003. HTML from Storyspace. Bureau of Reclamation planning concepts that still work.

A pixelated Ferris wheel on a blue background.

Ferris Wheels, 1997. In Iowa Review Web. Is a ride where links can imply very different fates for our narrator. Will her ride end in marriage or suicide? (This was the first hypertext in the Iowa Review).

Resurrected from the Dead

Firefly (Flash/Ruffle) In Poems that Go 2002. Firefly: a tale told in 180 degrees of separation is a lyrical yet formal structure comprised of 6 stanzas, each five lines long and six lines deep.

Carving In Possibilities Version 2.0. (Flash/Ruffle) In Frame 6, 2001.

Princess Murderers with Geniwaite, 2003 (Flash). In Iowa Review Web, is a game based narrative with sex and violence.

Kanji-kus (View them in The NEXT as the Electronic Literature Lab resurrected them),
Holly's Legends, 2024 (Revived as a thank you to Holly Slocum) Dreams of Cobras, in Tattoo Highway, 2002
Children's Time, in Snakeskin, 2001
Sea Whispers, in Currents, 2001
In the Sun, in Project Hope, 2001
Bubbles, in Electronic Poetry Center, 2000
What Women Say, 2000
Breathing at the Galaxy's Edges, in Planet Magazine, 1999
Mountain Rumbles, in New River, 1999
The Language of the Void, in Riding the Meridian, 1999
Spiritual Comfort, in PIF, 1999
Dream Mergin, in Aileron, 1999
Sand Loves, in Eastgate's Reading Room, 1999
Stained Word Windows, 1999
Father Figures, 1999
Power Moves, in Cauldron and Net, 2000 and Ghost Moons part of Akenatondocks published cd, 2000 have disappeared.
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Mostly Dead: Contact me for the .swf files

Intruder, 2000 (Flash). In New River, holds most of its secrets in an intimate place. Violate her sanctity, if you truly must.The NEXT archive has a downloadable copy of the .swf file.

Portion of the poem, in gold and blue text. Words changed develop out I can't find.

I'm Simply Saying (Flash/Ruffle) Inflect 2002 The NEXT archive

Cut to the Flesh with Jody Zellen, 2004 (Flash). In Page Space.In The NEXT archive.

Peace Roses, 2001 (Flash). In The Muse Apprentice Guild. Is a poem that has haunted me for a long time. It is one I write and rewrite.The NEXT archive

green text Woman Mention on a tree background

Tree Woman, 2001 (Flash) The NEXT archive

Intro screen for E:Electron, which uses the Dr. Who score.

E:Electron, 2000 (Flash) with Geoffrey Gatza. In Riding the Meridian, Jumping at the Diner. A love poem using the periodic table of elementsThe NEXT archive has an unavailable copy.

Samplers: Nine vicious little hypertexts is a foray into structural storytelling using Storyspace., Eastgate Systems, 1996.

Century Cross in the Eastgate Quarterly, Volume 2 number 2, Eastgate Systems, 1995.

Marble Springs 1.0 in Hypercard, Eastgate Systems, 1993.

Help Wanted

Hey I’m always working on stuff, and I'd love some collaboration:

Fundamentals: Help locate materials to update my textbook on reading, Fundamentals

Chronic: I have a secret language that needs code so you can play it on a phone

Self Care and World Care Under Deep Uncertainty Is a huge planning project and I need communities and individuals to try it out!