STORYSPACE: Having Fun with Mood Swings
I’ve tread lightly into magical realism in straight text but I’m finding that the hypertext environment gives it almost an irresistible element of fun. Because one can move around so much in Storyspace, one can take things to the very edge and then drop back into the reason of reality without having to explain oneself. Maybe not a truly new concept to a writer, but certainly one for me. The closest I’ve come before in this area is in poetry.
Yet the good story is always a series of what thens? and this is no different. So what happened after Bonnie trudged through the snow inside her house to go upstairs and change her clothes? Well of course the first thing she did was kick off her slippers…
In the bedroom, Bonnie reluctantly stepped out of her slippers but was very happy to see that the snow wasn’t cold or wet like she would have thought. The two bunnies, now free of her feet, hopped in long quick leaps across the room. She watched in delight as two tufted tails disappeared under the bedskirt. Like stage curtains the dust ruffle shifted and bulged and then their pink noses stuck out, their long whiskers sparkling like necklaces strung with crystal snowflakes.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology