The writer builds a web of small story "chunks" which are tied together via predefined relationship links. Once this webbed story world or "storybase" is created, the user is able to request a story as constructed by any one of a number of "story agents."

Story agents are software agents with behavioral traits that describe the type of stories they are prone to construct. Although this research is not tied to a particular delivery system, this techinique of story definition and construction suggests a model for interactive TV.

The limitation of the program is that story agents can only be as distinct and "interesting" as the complexity of the storybase allows.

Crossing the Street is an evolving and expanding collection of first-person short stories about the effects of taking journeys, large and small.

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