Bleak and experimental short fiction with new media interventions
Written and created by Andy Campbell in 2002, Book of Waste is a series of bleak short stories - their language sometimes digitally manipulated, and riddled with branching/looping interactive choices.
A young man brings home a loaded gun in a shopping bag; a girl tries to kill herself with laxative; an angry teenage boy falls in love with the school nurse; an isolated writer ponders on the lottery of existence; a cleaner is stalked through a building by a psychopath. Of course, there are no happy endings here - but the characters themselves and the psychological wiring behind the text can prove compelling.
Contains very strong language and references to violence and suicide.
Note that this work is emulated using Ruffle and requires a page refresh to go back to the main menu after each story.