Let's Talk Mythology and Folklore

6 Word Story: "Where's my tether?" said the astronaut. Drifting Away... 25 Word Story: When he left the city, he wasn't the same man anymore. Actually...nobody still alive was the same anymore. Atomic radiation can change a person.  After the Apocalypse Author's Note: Wow, six-word stories are hard. I looked up some examples and was blown away by the creativity that people displayed in their six-word versions. However, I actually think that reading some examples made it harder to come up with a novel idea. Also, given the themes of my last microfiction, I really wanted to avoid anything depressing sounding. Which, unfortunately, is what many microfictions center around. If I had to give some inspiration for this story, I guess I'd credit the movie Gravity just for the whole drifting away in space idea. The 25-word story was a little more fun and easy to write given the latitude I had. I wanted to try and build the story backward, sugge...

So...Twine. Hypertext stories with divergent paths and multiple endings are really fun. I still remember when I had those actual physical books where you could follow different paths and get different endings by simply turning to different pages as instructed. Honestly, they were some of my favorite books from my childhood. I delighted in trying to work out all the possible endings and always had a lot of fun doing so. So with Twine, I felt strangely nostalgic. However, I was also very excited. I love the idea of writing my own story with a complex diverging path that people can spend hours exploring. In fact, I began this assignment at around noon and have been playing around with Twine for about 6 hours now. In that time, I wrote and discarded a lot of ideas and ended settling on a simple little story for now. If you're curious to check it out, I've actually embedded the story into a blog post! Just look for the Twine label on my main page. Give it a play and comment on t...