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Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period

An interactive novel
By Stephen Marche • Illustration by Ted Barker
Fiction/Online Exclusive • Supplement to the November 2010 magazine
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Illustration by Ted Barker

Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period is an interactive novel with hundreds of possible storylines and multiple outcomes. It uses a web format to capture the reality of a young woman in Toronto in the early 2000s, allowing the reader to explore different aspects of Lucy’s life and times and the city in which she lives, while following her through the labyrinth of her various futures. Lucy’s fate, like our own, is up in the air, open to negotiation and sudden change.

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