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You Say Time is a River is a locative, digital poetry collection, created and currated by Maria Barnas for the AMC Kunststichting (Academic Medical Center Art Foundation).

Anyone who is in a waiting room, lives in her own special time zone. For some, time goes by slowly, for others, time pulsate like a stroboscope. Maria Barnas created poems for the Emergency Room of the AMC Hospital that open up a spaces where the different timelines of the visitors are made accessible.

Slouching Towards Bedlam is an interactive fiction game that won the first place in the 2003 Interactive Fiction Competition. It [..] was finalist for eight 2003 XYZZY Awards, winning four: Best Game, Setting, Story, and Individual NPC (for the protagonist's cybernetic assistant, Triage). The game takes place in a steampunk Victorian era setting. Its title is inspired by a line from "The Second Coming", a poem by W.B. Yeats.(Wikipedia)

This is the story of two women whose souls switch bodies during their surgery after a traffic accident they were both involved in. The story is told in a standalone iPad app, narrated in part by the sister of one of the women and in part through a series of documents that the sister finds or is given: the doctor's report of the surgery, emails and chat transcripts from people reacting to the soul-swapping, and various other Although the story is entirely linear, the illustrations and the feeling of opening documents on the screen make this short story well suited to the tablet reading environment. The style of writing is humorous and at times somewhat caricatured, though also raising large questions about identity and mortality.