My third major project, Stone Moons, circa 1996-1999, was declared dead at Cybermountain 1999. I had overrun the buffers of Storyspace with multiple n-ary links (one word, many destinations), names in the links, images for navigation, and so on. Well, with 491 nodes and 6,000 links, what do you expect? WSUV students have now delved into the old computer Storyspace and carefully resurrected each word, each link. They laughed at the jokes in the interstices of links formed by link names, created codes to handle those popup link nodes, and recreated the original three-dimensional structure of a wine cup in Twine. We are in the process of transforming that archive into a Twine piece.

Stone Moons is in three parts:
Laurel’s world (the bottom of the cup) is a series of facilitated exercises that may or may not be Laurel’s thoughts as a profoundly autistic, pre-verbal child.
Janet, the mother’s emails (the rim and outside of the cup) shows her struggles against both the physical world (e.g., denied services, demented double crossings, and life in general with a child who can not speak with this world) and the spiritual world (the moon and her mysteries) who she claims is stealing Laurel’s soul.
The Moon (the inside red wine) explores semi-scholarly, semi-deital musings about the nature of the moon and what she would want with Laurel’s soul.
This recreation of a still-born work will show the work as it was almost completed in 1999, without additional editing. This work feature