It was interesting to see how people linked to other peoples’ stories and how they chose their links. I liked how Ann Luu linked her line “summertime is not what it used to be anymore”, namely, the word ‘summertime’, with Wes Shephard’s story “Neighborhood Lawns in the Middle of September”, which has a lot of focus on the departure of summertime. Some people found similarities between their stories and their classmates’ stories which they linked to. For example, Randall Ford’s “Swimming Through a Sea of Defiance”, was linked to my story, “When There Is No Story At All”. In both of our stories, the characters had fallen asleep and were wondering if they were dreaming, so Randall linked the words “fallen asleep” with my story.
There were also lots of links that demonstrated funny plays on words, like in Bryan Pierson’s “From the Deep Dark Cells of Isolation” where the “The photographs of a man sliced up in his basement” links to a picture of slices of bread. Another example of this is the word ‘bird’ which takes you to a link to Duck Hunt in Jennifer Parker’s “Cowering in the Darkest Chasms”.
Some people linked to certain pictures to help illustrate their stories or to draw attention to a specific object in their stories, like the illustration of the bridge’s entrance in Bertha Bey’s A Look Beyond the Bridge.
There were also links that made you re-think different elements of the story, for example, the use of the Virgin Mary in Jason Obenscain’s “Rock! Said Mary”. In this case, it makes you re-think who “Mary” really is.