afternoon, a story
By Michael Joyce.
$24.95 Macintosh USB stick
His afternoon begins with a terrible suspicion that the wrecked car he saw that morning may have belonged to his ex-wife: "I want to say I may have seen my son die this morning."
Patchwork Girl
By Shelley Jackson.
$24.95 Macintosh USB stick
What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster, not the fictional Dr. Frankenstein? And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America?
Those Trojan Girls
By Mark Bernstein.
$24.95 $14.95 Macintosh
Helena doesn’t want a revolution, she didn’t ask to get stuck in the middle of an insurgency. It’s not her fault. But those topless towers are going to burn.
Victory Garden
By Stuart Moulthrop.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
The Gulf War and its media frenzy serves as the backdrop for this Dickensian tale of culture politics, seduction, burglary, dissent, war, and unsafe driving.
Of Day, Of Night
By Megan Heyward.
$35.00 Macintosh/Windows
In Megan Heyward's new media narrative, of day, of night, a woman has lost the ability to dream. Produced in association with the Australian Film Commission and the University of Technology, Sydney, exhibited in Europe, Asia and Australia and highly commended at the AIMIA awards.
Samplers: nine vicious little hypertexts
By Deena Larsen.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
Spirits return to haunt the living. Memories stubbornly refuse to fade. Stories of children far wiser than their parents, and of a meeting between a government bureaucrat and Coyote. Nine very vicious but unforgettable little hypertexts.
Figurski at Findhorn on Acid
By Richard Holeton.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
Frank "Many-Pens" Figurski has been paroled, having served six years for killing Professor Quentin Kingsley. Now, he is on a mission.
A Dream with Demons
By Edward Falco.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
A world where bruised adults attempt, over and over, to rewrite the violent scripts of their childhood. "Something very new" -- the Salt Hill Review.
Turning In
By Wes Chapman.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
In this hypertextual coming-of-age novel, Adri Sumner's wish to forget his troubled childhood paradoxically launches him on a journey of self-discovery.
Twilight, a Symphony
By Michael Joyce.
$24.95 Macintosh
From the celebrated author of afternoon: a story. In its fearless exploration of death and desire, Twilight, A Symphony takes an unflinching yet deeply compassionate look at the longings that haunt us all.
Forward Anywhere
By Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
Xerox PARC ,1993: When writer and artist Judy Malloy, "surrounded by the aura of blood and frozen pea juice," arrived to meet Cathy Marshall, "a collaboration seemed unlikely."
Down Time
By Rob Swigart.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
A police officer, a terminally-ill patient, a computer technician, and a high-school guidance counselor are just a few of the characters we follow through twenty-one stories of the computer age.
We Descend
By Bill Bly.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
What -- or who -- lives in the rocky hills around him? What secrets bind his superiors in fear and silence?
Notes Toward Absolute Zero
By Tim McLaughlin.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
Follow Jericho, Magel, and Winter as their lives intersect and diverge across an eerie landscape dotted with relics, forgotten lists, train wrecks, scraps from journals, ghost ships, poetry, postage stamps, Mesmer's propositions, and -- of course -- The Six Failures of Love.
Quibbling
By Carolyn Guyer.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
"A stunning achievement of ecriture feminine in both form and aesthetic. The rhythm of the "buzz-daze" in Guyer's Quibbling is nothing less than Claudine Hermann's 'vision of a language released from the coordinates of space/time'." -- Alison Sainsbury, Illinois Wesleyan University.
Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse
By John McDaid.
$39.95 Mac (Requires HyperCard)
Art "Buddy" Newkirk has disappeared, leaving you a letter from his law firm and a chocholate box filled with the contents of his hard disk and tapes from his basement studio. Surreal and puzzling.
its name was Penelope
By Judy Malloy.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
An artist, a photographer. A tripartite montage of a life in random screens of text that glimpse and blink by like the slide show at a party.
Marble Springs
By Deena Larsen.
$24.95 Mac (Requires HyperCard)
In Marble Springs, Deena Larsen turns the tables on the traditions of the western: the lives of women are spread before the reader while men are seen only at the margins.
I have said nothing
By J. Yellowlees Douglas.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
Bracketed by two fatal car accidents, "I Have Said Nothing" is a meditation on the enormity that divides us from others.
Lust
By Mary-Kim Arnold .
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
This bold work uses the limits of this new form to great advantage. One of the most influential hypertexts yet written: "A miniature gem"-- New York Times Book Review.
In Small & Large Pieces
By Katrhyn Cramer.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
A postmodern Through the Looking Glass. Anna's parents have that bad habit of falling apart in a crisis.
Unnatural Habitats
By Kathy Mac.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
Canadian poet Kathy Mac explores the consequences of American idealism, from the Apollo 13 tragedy to the U.S. invasion of Kuwait.
Mothering
By Judith Kerman.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
Sensitive, whimsical, and moving. The continual sound -- part murmur, part jackhammer -- of a mother's voice binds past, present, and possible futures.
Century Cross
By Deena Larsen.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
What happens when a technical writer for a government agency locks herself overnight in the Federal Center to catch up on her work? Coyote pays a visit.
Completing The Circle
By Michael van Mantgem.
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
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A Life Set for Two
By Robert Kendall and Richard Smyth .
$24.95 Windows
Welcome to Café Passé. Place a retrospective order and discover how regret, desire, bitterness and memory feed on dreams. Don't forget to leave room for dessert!
Genetis
By Richard Smyth .
$24.95 Macintosh/Windows
After the narrator's mental meltdown on his honeymoon, he learns that only writing has the power to salvage his sanity and his life.
The Perfect Couple
By Clark Humphrey.
$24.95 Mac (Requires HyperCard)
They expected the world to envy them. When it didn't, they became simply more convinced that theirs was a love the world could not understand. Were they visionaries, or just crazy?
King of Space
By Sarah Smith.
$24.95 Macintosh
Old man and young, young woman and ageless starship meet and meet again as enemies, allies, rapists, and lovers. Fall into a maze of love, or find the dance at the center of the world that regenerates the ship.