Izme Pass was an early attempt to understand story in terms of hypertext specifically, and human relations generally. Our intent was to take three existing works, all hypertext fictions written by three different authors, and by linking among them, create a fourth work which could stand on its own but still remain clearly drawn from its antecedents.

Izme Pass was included on disk with a special hypertext issue of Writing On the Edge, edited by Stuart Moulthrop and published by the University of California-Davis in 1991. Martha Petry and I wrote an accompanying article about the process, the Introductory section of which you can read here.

These excerpts include parts of the fourth work, "pass," but the whole hypertext on disk also carried selected portions of the three hypertexts which generated "pass." They were: WOE by Michael Joyce; Quibbling by Carolyn Guyer; and Rosary by Martha Petry.

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