From the acclaimed author of "afternoon, a story," which the New York Times called "the granddaddy of hypertext fictions," "Reach, a fiction" by Michael Joyce is a poetic narrative comprised of approximately fifty hypertext nodes with numerous interconnected links. From the main page, the reader is given the option of clicking on any area of the text—a list of "reach" definitions—to continue. The reader may also navigate the text by selecting a word on the right side bar or by using the three featured buttons: "X & <". As Joyce explains, "X links cross the span of the now gone storyspace, which provided the compositional field. &links move forward in actual compositional time. <links move likewise but backward. Each page has indexical links to its neighboring clusters and in all other spaces after this one all text is linked as well." As with other hypertexts, the user is free to determine reading order and reach for a meaning.