[Redacted] Whispers (2024)
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“[Redacted] Whispers" a hypertext interactive narrative that uses simple text-based conditional logic with custom HTML elements to embark participants on a journey through a post pandemic New York City. Interacting with the visceral hypertexts unfolds the narrator’s personal journey of language, identity, and belonging, highlighting - both literally and figuratively - the difficulty of belonging.
Quotes from [Redacted] Whispers
I hated that my last name rhymed with a surprise - an “Oh,”
of realization,
of innocent surprise,
of dawning on me seconds later. It felt too much of a description of who I was,
unaware, taken by surprise.
Oh.
Here, the ability to speak English is as common as skin.
My skin is always a tint off.
“[Redacted] Whispers” has been shortlisted for the Chris Meade Memorial UK 2024 New Media Writing Prize (2024) and received an Honorable Mention in the Interactive Digital Narrative for Social Good category (2024).