BE HONEST (you'll get the best experience):
If you have a desktop computer or a good laptop, click here:
http://www.unlikelystories.org/alanbigelow/THIS/ThisIs.html
If you have the latest iPhone (5 or better) or its equivalent click here:
http://www.unlikelystories.org/alanbigelow/THIS/ThisIs3.html
If you have another portable device (iPad, iPhone 4 or lower, not the newest Samsung, Droid, Etc.) click here:
http://www.unlikelystories.org/alanbigelow/THIS/ThisIs2.html
"Ethan Has Nowhere To Go" was a short story written by Jeremy Hight. It was about to be published when he pulled it. It will never be published. These solicited works are Ethan. These works are the story.
The text exists only to be used as a nameless trigger, as a bit of back end, like HTML code.
Alan Bigelow was the 2011 winner of the BIPVAL international Prix de Poésie Média. His work, installations, and conversations concerning digital fiction and poetry have appeared in Turbulence.org, Rhizome.org, SFMOMA (Open Space), Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, 14th Japan Media Arts Festival (The National Art Center, Tokyo), FAD, VAD, FreeWaves.org, The Museum of New Art (MONA, Detroit), Art Tech Media 2010, FILE 2007-2011, Blackbird, Drunken Boat, IDEAS, New River Journal, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and elsewhere.
Recently, in addition to teaching full-time at Medaille College, he was a visiting online lecturer in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, UK.
You can see Alan Bigelow's work at www.WebYarns.com.
Alan says, "Jeremy Hight, an artist and writer, asked me to take his story 'ethan has nowhere to go' and do something with it.
"I replaced every word in the story with the word 'word.'
"I took the lines of his story, compressed them, and formed the phrase 'THIS IS A STORY.'
"I threw in some touch/mouse interactivity (with some help!).
"I added some visual backgrounds that seemed to suggest the nature and history of narrative.
Our lives have an infinite number of permutations. So do stories."
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