Bus Station: Unbound
You're heading home for Christmas. There’s a snowstorm, the roads are gridlocked and you’re stranded in a bus station known as the North’s most monstrous building. People here are behaving strangely. A group of teenagers seem to have vanished into thin air. Your parents' marriage is on the rocks.
The snow falls and falls and outside, the church bells are ringing...
The snow falls and falls and outside, the church bells are ringing...
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Bus Station: Unbound is a fable about about finding yourself in-between places and times: an interactive novel for grown-ups, in which the narrative lies in your own hands. Is it about an iconic building under threat from a short-sighted council or a horror story about infernal retribution? Or is it a tale of guilt, grief, home and forgetfulness? You decide.
Bus Station: Unbound is the first in a series of fully interactive novels from Curious Tales. The text tracks your journey and presents different moods, characters, genres and styles depending on the choices you make. The novel is written by Jenn Ashworth and Richard V. Hirst, and features photography by Helen Power. The full text is available for whatever price you choose to pay here. READ NOW
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If you can read and make choices, you can explore Bus Station: Unbound, and its incredibly piquant prose that conjures all the spiritual weight of returning to your hometown in the dead of winter. |
Pay for what you read
Bus Station: Unbound is an interactive online novel. Everything which takes place is down to you, the reader. Even the cost.
Here’s the deal. The full text of Bus Station: Unbound is free to access. All you need to do is click on the image above and get reading. BUT we do ask that you please make a donation. This can be anything from £0.01 to £10,000, whatever you can manage and whatever you think Bus Station: Unbound warrants.
If you’re wondering how long the full text is, it’s roughly 100k words in total (the same length of, say, The Prisoner of Azkaban). It’s taken us a full year to write, edit and assemble it. And if you’re wondering precisely how much to pay: as a guideline figure we’d hazard that £3 is a pretty decent amount.
Why pay at all? Curious Tales isn’t a big publisher. In fact we’re barely a publisher. We’re five friends with day-jobs, none of whom draw any kind of a salary from Curious Tales. Whatever amount you choose to part with will be used solely to fund the costs of producing future projects and publications from Curious Tales like this one.
Bus Station: Unbound was created using software created and maintained by Inkle Studios whose website hosts the novel.
