EXPERIMENTAL FICTION – ROM COM – HORROR – NOVELLA – CYBERPUNk
THE CHILDREN,
A novella set in both the present and the future
This is also a metafiction, or surfiction in America. This means the self conscious or reflexive bent is part of the construct of the work. I recently learned that early ideas of this sort of text are that it is a
‘hypertext’
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By Hermione Laake, writing as Hermione Wilds Writes writing as Gem Stone.
Copyright Hermione Laake. In accordance with copyright laws in the UK, which is the country in which this work was produced and published, the author, Hermione Laake writing as Gem Stone and writing as Hermione Wilds Writes reserves the right to be identified as the author of this work and to retain their rights to their intellectual property, and control of how the work is shared and distributed both inside and outside Medium for seventy years from the first publication date in April 2020.
Notes
Several paragraphs of this novella were published as a blog on Wordpress during the pandemic every day in April to July 2020 under a different title, The Motherboard.
Length: 45, 500 words.
