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If I Survive You
Experience: Empathy
Narrative Technology: I want to propose a new narrative technology term
"Him start walking you inside and telling you how beautiful the baby you make is, but all you can think 'bout is how it good your mummy and daddy never lived to see this. More than that, you think 'bout how you break Sanya' heart. And about how she make you choose between Delano and Trelawny to take back to the house you finally rebuild and how she say she will never set foot inside that house again. You told her you don' wan' take either son from she and she say, You think I go let you walk away from your responsibilities? Like that your plan the whole time. She say, You will take Delano, because me don' trust you with Trelawny. And you can' deny you felt small bit of relief." -Escoffery 62
Contributed by: gjosselyn
April 27, 2026
No Friend But The Mountains
Experience: I want to propose a new experience term
Narrative Technology: I want to propose a new narrative technology term
"The police that patrolled the city left no stone unturned in pursuit of us; I couldn't relax for a second. They were throwing everyone they caught into prison, and then deporting them after a few days. Even contemplating that scenario is painful. Having to return to the point from which I started would be a death sentence." -Boochani 9
Contributed by: gjosselyn
April 27, 2026
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the series)
Experience: I want to propose a new experience term
Narrative Technology: I want to propose a new narrative technology term
"Okay, first of all, I’m a vampire slayer. And secondly, I’m retired…" and "Well, I have both been there and done that [slain vampires]. And I am moving on." -"Welcome to the Hellmouth" The plot of the first episode is Buffy wanting to be a normal girl, but being pulled into the Slayer identity she is actively fighting to rid herself of.
Contributed by: gjosselyn
April 27, 2026
Parable of the Sower
Experience: Relearning
Narrative Technology: I want to propose a new narrative technology term
The novel begins with passages from EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING and then we learn from the first-person narrator that these verses have been crafted by her: "For whatever it's worth, here's what I believe. It took me a lot of time to understand it, then a lot more time with a dictionary and a thesaurus to say it just right--just the way it has to be."
Contributed by: mi
February 28, 2026
Starcrossed
Experience: Confusion
Narrative Technology: I want to propose a new narrative technology term
When she awakes one morning, Ariadne inquires about her sleep and Helen pulls back her sheets to reveal "untouched jingle bells still wrapped around her ankles...but under the bells, [her] feet were dirty, swollen, and red from what looked like weeks of walking" (Starcrossed 373)
Contributed by: Kaitlyn O.
June 5, 2025
Flowers for Algernon
Experience: I want to propose a new experience term
Narrative Technology: I want to propose a new narrative technology term
“But anyway thats sience and I got to try to be smart like other pepul. Then when I am smart they will talk to me and I can sit with them and listen like Joe Carp and Frank and Gimpy do when they talk and have a discushen about importent things. While their werking they start talking about things like about god or about the truble with all the mony the presedint is spending or about the ripublicans and demicrats. And they get all excited like their gonna have a fite so Mr Donner got to come in and tell them to get back to baking or theyll all get canned union or no union. I want to talk about things like that. If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.”
Contributed by: Kaitlyn O.
June 5, 2025
The Lost Bookshop
Experience: Empathy
Narrative Technology: I want to propose a new narrative technology term
Hardships each character went through (Opaline - imprisonment in a psychiatric hospital, Martha - abusive husband, Henry - abusive father), the "bad guys" not winning or "getting what they deserved," and characters I liked getting their happy ending
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025