Welcome to "Nightcap!"

What follows is a short story involving four characters in urban pre-WWII America.  The tale is broken into nine small installments.  Readers select which character's point of view they wish to see in each subsequent installment.  They can keep with one character's narrative throughout, or they can flit between the thoughts of each.  There are hundreds of combinations in which this brief narrative could be experienced.

Initially, I wanted to connect the story threads via hashtags or '@' signs, but I couldn't do that without similarly tagging the current installment that I wanted the following screen to replace.  Blogger was a logical choice after I was able to rule out Facebook or Twitter because I could make the story segments as individual posts, and create links within the posts themselves that pointed to the appropriate subsequent posts (thereby maintaining the interactive, concurrent flow of the story one piece at a time).

The setting for this story is a virtually empty bar and restaurant late at night, just minutes before closing time.  The characters are a bartender who can't wait to split, his boss who is puzzling over finances, a lady who's been waiting for someone all evening, and a late arrival with mysterious intentions.  Mouse over and click the icon of the character from whose perspective you'd like to start.




(After going through a time or two, I encourage readers to click the label bar.  Some labels will reveal all of one character's story threads.  Other labels will display each character's perspective of the same chapter.  By doing this, though, readers run the risk of revealing too much for themselves at once, but it is a feature of the Blogger platform.)