NEW MEDIA: Synaptic Offering
Found via the Sycamore Review, James Tadd Adcox, a former editor at SR, is offer what he calls a ‘synaptic novel’ on this website, Fiction Volante. What he’s aiming for is a short story each and every weekday for one year. From his site: Synaptic Novel: a long prose work composed of short narratives connected (or linked) to each other through associations of phrase or image.
Today’s entry is interesting and enticing:
Each time we kissed, something new sprang up from the ground. Daisies, violets, poison ivy, kudzu. “Stop, really,” Rose said. A jumble of chrysanthemums shot up. “It’s too much,” she said. A cherry tree.
I don’t quite see the links or associations, but then I haven’t gotten the chance yet to go through the site to see when Adcox started this. The writing is neat, the concept contemporary, and I, of course, am a sucker for magical realism such as the above. I did expect some form of hypertext, having been so mentally invested in it for the past several months. I’m not sure that the stories couldn’t be linked to each other physically but it appears that the narrative is the ‘link’ to which Adcox refers, though the characters and scenarios are different in each post (or so it appears, on a brief look-through).
I do love the idea of sharing story and the weblog is an excellent way of doing so. I’ll be going back for some reading there.
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