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1. Blue Company

   A novel told in email. Readers subscribed and received at least one e-mail per day for the month of May 2002. Blue Company is part one of a two part fiction; the second part is "Kind of Blue" by Scott Rettberg. Blue Company's e-mails are from a young marketing guy, Berto, who has gotten a really bad job transfer. He's been transferred to Italy, which is great, but he's also been transferred to the 14th century, which is dangerous and uncomfortable. The e-mails are nominally addressed to a woman Berto met shortly before his departure, and as he courts her we learn the story of his travels with a small group of 21st century corporate mercenaries called the "Blue Company" toward a fateful rendezvous beyond Milan. The e-mails are illustrated by hand since, of course, there were no cameras in the late middle ages.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.01.2011 - 12:50

2. Friday's Big Meeting

   A narrative that unfolds in a chat room with photographic avatars. Author's intro: It was said by some, in North America, in the boom period of the late 1990s, that a web design company would have to work very hard to lose money. Well, one little company was working harder than most. And in the chat room of that company, two lovers crossed lines...

   Scott Rettberg - 17.03.2011 - 15:39