1969: Protest, Sex, Drugs, and Rock n' Roll

An enhanced web novel, consisting of the inter-twined stories of five central characters and their struggles during the year 1969 at an unnamed university in an unnamed university town near an unnamed city containing an unnamed ethnic ghetto.

I began writing this in 1994 as an exploration of how the then-new "world-wide web" might be used as a platform on which to portray life in all the richness and variability previously done largely through print-on-paper novels, short stories, and poetry. I envisioned a new form of fiction that might be personalized and shared, including reader-provided soundtracks, flexible plot sequences, links to actual events of the time, and personalized to take place at a university of one's choice. I have recently been inspired by the emergence of social-media publishing platforms like Wattpad to take up writing and publishing this once more.