100 DAYS PROJECT: #46
Suicide Notes
This one was a bit more difficult to get into the story and yet maintain the hypertext connections. While I’m posting it here, I know that I will want to work the story a bit more to get closer into the characters as the theme obviously has made me step a bit too softly as a writer onto this emotional ground.
Looking strictly at the plot and narrative structure, while I’m sure it has been done in straight text, the concept is ideally worked in the hypertext form. There are three stories going on here; separated by time and characters and yet tied intimately together by the human emotions. All three need to be read, and getting technical again, there may be more work needed in the linking.
And what brought me into this story from Steve’s The Reader? Likely the rush of plots and characters and the unlikely and possible situations thrown into a summer of reading. What they all have in common, without knowing their story, is life and death. I chose to linger on the latter.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology