“How to say Goodbye in a Pandemic” explores my growing interest in interactive fiction and storytelling. This piece is currently under review by Feral Feminisms– the open access feminist journal.
How does one hack the Anthropocene?
Nature, masked as COVID-19 virus, did for itself what humans have been incapable of doing. This submission comprises two intertwined parts: prose and interactive fiction. The prose explores the unleashing of the virus on the Anthropocene, the mediating digital infrastructure and Nature’s caution to care. The interactive fiction provides a portal: an imagining of the universal experience of mortality in a pandemic during the Anthropocene. It is a story of personal loss and the author did not get to say goodbye.