The Brain Drawing the Bullet
"The Brain Drawing the Bullet" is an interactive work of electronic literature by Alan Trotter. The narrative is a hypertext story that changes every time the reader interacts with it, to create the sense of an unreliable narrator and stand as an allegory for the process of memory. The story was created using JavaScript, a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) program.
The story is about writer William S. Burroughs psychological deterioration while recalling the murder of his wife through his revisions in a series of editorials he wrote. As the story progresses, Burroughs simultaneously adds and removes details from the previous iteration of editorials he had written, giving the reader an unreliable recollection of the murder. At the end of the story, Burroughs transitions his recollection of the murder from a trick gone wrong, to him being unnecessarily persecuted for a murder he didn't commit. The story can be accessed here: http://collection.eliterature.org/3/works/the-brain-drawing-the-bullet/index.html .
Readers interact with the work by first clicking the red arrow at the end of the title and continuing to click the arrow at the end of each new section of the story. It is up to the reader then to investigate the discrepancies in the details of the editorials that change with each addition to the editorial.
This work relates to the theme of characters being wronged by its transition of the narrator being the guilty party in the murder scheme to being a victim of society framing him for a murder he didn't commit.