Between the Cracks is an interactive literary fiction piece that explores the events leading up to a violent school tragedy. The work allows readers to move through the space of the story, changing point of view and following different characters to experience each character’s perspective as the story unfolds. The piece highlights the ways that perception informs our understanding of the world and explores the tensions between identity and persona, social and intimate, and knowledge and perception. Formally, Between the Cracks draws on hypertext fiction and video games as inspiration for a literary form that enhances the ebook with the interactivity of a game.
Between the Cracks is scheduled to be featured in undercurrents, the MFA Exhibition for UC Santa Cruz’s Digital Arts + New Media Program. It will premiere May 1, 2014.
