A Secret Surveillance

Camp Hulen, Texas, where the author began.

Revelations of a Secret Surveillance is a fictional history based on author Judy Malloy's family. This is not a choose-your-own adventure hypertext narrative. Rather, it is, as the author writes, "a hybrid of informational accretion and poetic fragmentation."


In other words, hypertext is used in a non-linear way that allows readers to follow a story that unfolds in eight "Cantos" while exploring Malloy's poetic tangents, for example: " butter sliced and spread on warm bread," or "looking at paintings."


Malloy uses hypertext to achieve a more sophisticated effect than the more common 'this way or that way' story. You are not led down dead-end paths; you are submersed in the written work. Try it, at least once.