I am happy to announce the release of my first work of interactive fiction, now available for download. I am distributing it through Patreon (as well as offering a number of other benefits). You can learn more and gain access through the link below. (You are most welcome, of course, to simply get the story for a one-time donation; no need to continue support after that!)

https://www.patreon.com/joshuaelzner

Here’s a summary:

“This is the story of Ian Young, a man of scarred memory and hurting heart, but of deep poetic intuition and strong desire. These have clashed within him for so long, and we enter the story whenever this conflict has all but been put to sleep. What follows is the story of his awakening. It is a short (four or five hour) and yet profound and focused story, told in the form of interactive fiction or a visual novel. In this medium, we are taken on a journey through the twisting labyrinths of the heart, where are gathered together, from the fragments of memory, the shards of eternity present in the midst of time, and in this encountered the offer of healing and newness of life.”

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Joshua

I know that your heart yearns, little one, to create something beautiful, a testament of love, a reflection, in the dimness of this world, of the radiant beauty of my own eternal light. I know the longing within to give birth without, the desire to create, sharing in eternal creativity. I want you to know, beloved, and to feel that the greatest masterpiece which I desire for you is the unspeakable beauty which is you yourself. You, the one whom I infinitely love, are the icon, transparent to my shining glory, enfolded in my grace, a blaze of fiery light bursting through the eyes, a figure whose countenance, whose heart, whose life is a reflection of the life, the heart, the face which is my own.