Christine Wilks, writer of Inkubus, Fitting the Pattern, and Rememori, is a leading voice in the world of electronic fiction. Wilks works mostly in Flash and many of her works centralize around a cyberfeminism theme. Her work, Underbelly, fits this theme and can be described as a playable story that blends poetry and gaming for a very intense experience. This…
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“Out of Touch”: The Internet Isn’t Your Valentine
Christine Wilks’ e-poem “Out of Touch” (OOT) begins with the raising and lowering of a typographical font that mimics the appearance keys from a keyboard. Maybe it was my slow internet, but the first time I viewed Wilks’ work the keys lowered and raised so slowly I began to think I too needed to join in typing my own keyboard to get things…
Coming Apart At the Seams
Fitting the Pattern by Christine Wilks Published originally in 2008 We all have stories about growing up and in “Fitting the Pattern or being a dressmaker’s daughter” a memoir in pieces, author Christine Wilks, shares with us hers. Her story about her changing relationship with her mother, herself and the clothes her mother made for her. Wilks expresses her story…
Fitting The Pattern
Fitting the Pattern by Christine Wilks “Fitting the Pattern, or being a dressmakers daughter, a memoir in pieces”, Wilks titles her (highly) interactive fiction. You pick up the tools: scissors, a sewing machine, pins and a thread cutter. A hand points you in the direction in which to drag your tool, red lettering similar to stanzas of a poem appear…