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Co-authored with Natalia Kucirkova, Per Henning Uppstad, and Lin Dan, fellow members of the Academic Advisory Board for the ICEIE.
Recent & featured work
"'Figurski at Findhorn on Acid' by Richard Holeton" in the Journal of Interactive Narrative
The inaugural issue of the Journal of Interactive Narrative, from the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives (ARDIN) and Carnegie Mellon ETC Press, features my hypertext novel "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" with a new abstract.
Cover art by Serge Lecomte
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"Step Away from the Pizza"
The dads with a traveling girls softball team engage in a cross-cultural confrontation over a pizza delivery. My story begins on page 44 of the journal: "It was half past nine in the evening and the girls were famished and giddy as we waited . . . ."
"The Winograd Matrix"
"The Winograd Matrix" is a Twine fiction in the form of a choice-based game about a couple confined together in a dystopian world of plagues and roving gangs. It appeared originally in KAIROS, republished here in the interactive journal Voidspace 8.
"Henry Revisited"
Featured in CULT #2, now available at Cult.Mag > Store. "Baba's threatening to maim herself with the IED she made with her Replicator," says Junior. "And you know she can do it! Even if she's faking a schizoid episode. The QuickResponders are surrounding her condo."
Read or Listen to "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid"
The new start page for my hypertext novel "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" features a direct link to John Barber's radio adaptation of the novel from Re-Imagined Radio ("LISTEN NOW"), now fully integrated into the site, all courtesy of the Electronic Literature Lab.
"Counting"
The Goreman Gelders had been undeterred by the groans that followed every BEEP!, or the shivering of grak-enhanced suppressed laughter, or the tear-streaked cheeks of their audience. They resolutely completed the 33-slide filmstrip and opened the floor for questions, but hearing none, they quietly packed up their projector and screen, smoothed down their skinny ties and rebuttoned their nondescript suit jackets. “Nice tapestries,” said the younger Gelder, somewhat longingly . . .
"Tunneling"
Weasel is following me, panting, on hands and knees, through a passage we call Route 66, even though it’s only a hundred feet long, the diameter of a barrel hoop, and made of clay. “Do you think I want to die in here?” I say. #experimental fiction #futurism #survival #dystopian
