London Eye

"The layout of this interactive flash fiction, 'London Eye,' is focused on a central television-style screen, with buttons lined horizontally and vertically in rows to offer no suggestion as to a proper course. In hyperfiction, there is no right or proper and so no wrong path to take. Greco has designed her story so that all is told whether backward or forward, left to right, vice versa, or diagonally. But in this there is also a game being played. Is the reader one who will follow a particular pattern such as left to right, top to bottom as text reading has taught us to do? In this, we can be a pick-and-chooser; as such, we may need to depend upon our memory to make each choice. Despite the references to the more modern technology of email and such, there is yet another subliminal reaching into the past via the time-fade of the screen. There is a limited amount of time allowed to complete the reading before the text fades and the button (here again, short-term memory serves well) must be hit again to complete the screen's information." -- From Electronic Literature Directory