Afternoon, a story

Michael Joyce’s Afternoon, a story is widely considered to be the first example of a born-digital hypertext story. In the twenty years since its publication, Afternoon’s complex rumination on memory and loss has become a touchstone for critiques of electronic literature, and has even been collected in the Norton Anthology of Postmodern Fiction. This gallery shows a Java port of the original, which continues to be published as software by Eastgate Systems.