So what's immersive fiction?

The sun on warm plastic, the way it feels, the faint way it smells.

The way it feels to step from sun to shade, then back again.

The scratch and stretch of a new uniform.

The way a video camera sees, like a human eye, nothing like a human eye.

Your own breathing, soft inside a fabric mask.

Garden 2020/”Merde” was shot onsite, in a socially-distant, fully masked production; director’s cut video is still in process. It was a new way for me to work, for an audience but not with one . . . Yet that’s what writing is. Writing remakes the real world for an audience the writer never sees in real time, but understands is always there.

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