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Hypertextual linking can allow for a nearly unlimited range of perspectives around and through a story. In Mother Millennia, stories display icons that represent threads connecting different works within the site. As the following list shows, the threads are broad themes which can gather a wide assortment of references to an idea, amplifying complexity, dimensionality, and perhaps, understanding. Visitors to the site can follow a thread simply by clicking on its icon. Any thread that has less than three works in its loop will return to this page. Remember that you can go directly to any loop from this Threads section, although the larger loops will not bring you back here as the very small ones will. (Sorry, but not all threads listed below are active yet.) The following are brief explanations of the rationale for each thread used thus far - or that we expect to use - in the Mother Millennia project. Others will be added as we go. |
 | Adoption Includes perspectives of all parties: the children, adoptive parents, and mothers who relinquish children for adoption. |
 | Biography The categories of biography (the stories told about another's life) and memoir (the stories told about one's own life) are actually too broad to handle the variations of real life stories. Nevertheless, some attempt will be made here with these two threads - Biography and Memoir - to differentiate a certain perspective within a story. |
 | Birth Includes stories of pregnancy, birth, and related ideas. |
 | Emigre Includes not only intentional emigration to another country, but all the varieties of diaspora. This may also include stories about slavery, holocaust, purges, and other such forced emigration. |
 | Essay Although many of the works in Mother Millennia could easily be called essays, this category will be used largely for critical or theoretical works. |
 | Father From the very beginning, Mother Millennia has received stories about fathers that the writers adamantly insist should be included in this project. And of course, they are. |
 | Fiction Notoriously difficult to define, fiction will be used as a thread and category of work in Mother Millennia to indicate stories that are intentionally invented rather than intentionally factual. However, the differentiation between these two will necessarily be a judgement call made by the coordinator, or by request of a contributor. |
 | Flora Includes plant life of every sort: gardens, forests, farms, houseplants, etc. |
 | Food Includes mostly human foods and the subjects of cooking and eating. |
 | Grandmother Not all references to grandmothers will be included in this thread, but those which have some prominence or other importance in a story. |
 | Graphics Indicates stories which rely on graphical images to convey part or all of their narratives. Some of these may require high bandwidth and will be marked as such in the Story Index. |
 | Letters Includes stories which take the form of letters and correspondence as well as those which feature letterwriting as an important part of the narrative. |
 | Memoir The categories of memoir and biography are not specific enough to cover the variations of stories told about another's life and the stories told about one's own life. There are inevitably shared aspects across that particular boundary. Nevertheless, some attempt will be made here with these two threads - Biography and Memoir - to differentiate a certain perspective within a story. |
 | Oral History Includes stories told directly about historical events by someone who witnessed them. In some cases, this thread will include stories by someone who is at one remove from the story, that is, someone who retells stories of historical events as told to them by an older person who witnessed them. An oral history will usually be in the voice of the person telling it. |
 | Poetry Includes traditional forms of poetry as well as any which are defined as poetry by the contributor. |
 | Video/Sound Indicates stories which use either video or sound. Most often these will be used together in the same work, though not always. These also usually require high bandwidth and will be marked so in the Story Index. |
 | War Includes wars not only between different cultural and political entities (nations, tribes, etc.), but also genocide, as in the Armenian Purge and the Jewish Holocaust. |
| More Threads are in the works. In the near future we will add: Absence, Blood, Body, Death, Fauna, House/Home, and Single Parent. Of course, there are an infinite number of such threads possible within a continually growing site like Mother Millennia. Let us know which ones you think should be here. | |
