Interactive gamebook

Butterfly.exe

By Austen Tucker

From the collection This is what I do for fun · Buy

An interactive-fiction story about uploading, grief, and what a copy of someone is worth.

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Black ink butterfly breaking into square digital fragments on cloth-white paper.

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Butterfly.exe branches. The PDF is a gamebook you follow by jumping between numbered sections; the browser version does the page-turning for you.

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