Post Hard: An Online Play in One Act

Post Hard: An Online Play in One Act Post Hard is a piece I wrote, based on the style that Caitlin Sullivan and I developed for our cyberspace novel, Nearly Roadkill. Live chats in cyber­ space are not literature. They're not even writing, in the strict sense of the word. They're best described as written speech, and that makes a big dif­ ference. Words come tumbling out of people ; they're real and they're urgent. Much of the dialogue in this piece actually transpired online one night. I changed the names, did some editing, and tweaked it to make it pretty. : :grin : :

I n cyberspace, it's easy to carry o n simultaneous conversations with two or more people. Each two-way conversation appears in its own window visible only to the two participants ; if you choose to be something differ­ ent in each exchange, you can experience a wonderful splattering of your identity !