The story of afternoon starts with the narrator saying ” I want to say I may have seen my son die this morning.” then the narrator starts what I think is him flashing back to the past and reminiscing about an event that occurred in the past. then the story seems to focus back into the present because he starts taking about seeing her car not far from where there son attends school. There he saw bodies laying on the ground but just continued to drive off. This sounded really bizarre to me, a normal human being despite whatever the circumstance would have stopped to make sure that his wife and child were okay or that they weren’t involved in the accident. After a few frames when he is at a dinner with his co-worker he asks him why didn’t you just stop or turn around and find out if it was them. After a few frames of text we see that the narrator goes to his son’s school to find out whether he attended school that day, and from there we find out that the author is in fact divorced. We also find out that his ex-wife has a new lover and has moved on with her life unlike himself. You could see a hint of resentment to the new man in her life and from the way he talks about her you can tell that he still cares. The circumstances by which they broke up has not yet come to light, there is some hint to an indiscretion on the wife’s part. The narrator has some proof that his son and his ex-wife were inolved in the accident that morning, but it seems that he is more worried about what people will think about him if it isnt true. Thats why I dont understand why he does not go to the hospitals and see if they were there.
The story stopped there for me, when he decided against going to the hospital. After that it just started getting confusing. Who’s Penelope and what does she have to with the story? I really did enjoy this interactive fiction story because it flowed for me…. It did not require for me to type the commands.