Is "These Waves of Girls" a True
a Work of Literature
By:Devon Hill

Reading anything on the internet is different than reading a printed text, even if you are reading something that was originally written in print. There are always several other things to distract the reader from the text. However, when reading something that was originally meant to be read on the internet the distractions are much more prevalent, especially if the text you are reading is more specifically a hypertext or in this case interactive fiction. Not only are there distractions on your computer outside of the text, but several distractions, such as hyperlinks and images, lie within the text itself. In fact, some of these distractions are placed within the text on purpose by the author. There are also several other aspects of interactive fiction that require the reader to add a little extra effort and patience while reading the text This being said, one important question remains regarding interactive fiction; Can this variety of fiction be considered literature, or is interactive fiction a classification in itself? To try to determine how to categorize a work of interactive fiction, I will critique Caitlin Fisher’s story “These Waves of Girls” using these categories as a guide