Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate

This is a detec­tive story about all the pos­sible ver­sions of a place. It fea­tures a bustling city built on a filled-in San Fran­cisco Bay, a pop star tech genius named Quintessandra, and internet teeth.

The web edition

This story was ini­tially pub­lished as a daily serial in two Bay Area newspapers, the Mer­cury News and East Bay Times, in the summer of 2020.

Fol­lowing that serialization, a group of a thou­sand patrons joined a lo-fi crowd­funding cam­paign, paying $9 each to receive a dig­ital edi­tion for them­selves and also unlock this web edi­tion for everyone.

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The code

An addi­tional goal of the crowd­funding cam­paign was to sup­port the release of the web edi­tion’s code, which is now available on GitHub.