Homework due 9/13/10 - hypertext narrative

24 hours with someone you know . . . by Philippa J. Burne www.glasswings.com.au/modern/24hours/ follows a young protagonist in a search for her cousin in a group house.  Although the hypertext links take the reader and the protagonist to various possibilities of the day, she never finds the cousin.  If you follow the hypertext options all the way to the party, the story ends with morning.  I'm not too sure what the protagonist looks like and I assume her gender from some shopping options.  The house mates are hostilely interchangeable at first meeting and a bit much to track until they spend one-on-one time with the protagonist.  The design is clean and the text is paired with interestingly composed black and white photographs.  I don't know if this is standard format, but the first page has only one plot option.  A walk-through-the-neighborhood page has an intriguing description of dumping ashes by a river but that plot line is not followed.  Several pages return to the same page, in a looping circle of time.

If the goal of hypertext is to demonstrate the fleeting and splintered journey through time, this story does just that.