Today is special.

You have no evidence of this fact, yet the certainty of it resonates through you with the thrumming tone of truth. It brought you out of your bed with - well, perhaps not a smile, but an energy!

Today, you know, something will happen. Something different.


  Buckle up for a one-of-a-kind interactive Choose Your Own Adventure website! Explore the story in an engaging, online format, immersing the readers like never before. Brought to you by Mari Edler & Kayden Cutchins, explore this narrative tale of an unordinary day at an ordinary school.

A message from the author:

  "Hi! My name is Kayden Cutchins, and I wrote the story of “The Dreamer, the Killer, and the Reader.”

  I didn’t have a plan when I started writing this story. I knew I wanted to make a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story, but the topic, subject, and themes remained a mystery even to me until I found the characters playing into this sort of surreal ambience I found really interesting. Without realizing it, I realized I had started to focus heavily on making sure that the same series of events always happened around the protagonist, regardless of the choices he or she chose. If you read through it a few different ways, you’ll find that the only thing that changes between each story path is the perspective through which the protagonist perceives events, and which events they perceive. Whether or not that lends itself to the theme of the impermanence of actions and the nature of our comparative smallness in the scope of the passage of time, I will say only that I allowed whatever themes *can* be found to develop themselves naturally. In short, I wrote page one, then I wrote page two, and I continued writing until I surprised myself with the realization that all of the plotlines had closed themselves off. The only editing I did was to make sure the pages that directed the reader to already-written pages would be cohesive in every narrative. The result is the story you see here now.

  In sum, I’m happy with the way this work turned out. Is it random? Absolutely. Is it fun? I hope so. There’s a certain pleasure in the ability to mold a narrative in whichever way the reader decides will provide the most immersive experience, and regardless of how compelling a narrative ensues, all I hope for is that you find some enjoyment in your ability to go back through this story and find something completely new this time. Thank you."