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A short Twine poem about risk and fear, September 21, 2016[Time to completion: ~5 minutes]
This short poem, presented in Twine, is about the experience of walking home as a person of colour, and the fear of being seen as a monster and being attacked.
Links, here, act as punctuation, giving it the rhythm of song. So yes, it's better if it's read aloud, but it needs the player's interaction - of clicking on the link - to drive in the rhythm.
walking home uses the symbology of religion to represent the power of weapons, of always staying more dangerous than other people out there - there are lines such as "pray to the brand on its edge for protection" - but it is, ultimately, born of fear. And despite this, fatalism is everywhere - a fatalism born of weariness, born of helplessness.
It may be "just" dynamic fiction. It may not be technically spectacular. But it's powerful stuff.
- gaite, December 20, 2015
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Twine poetry, March 28, 2014It plays better when you read it aloud.
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