Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

"Frank 'Many-Pens' Figurski, paroled after serving six years for killing Professor Quentin Kingsley, is on a mission. Having discovered what is apparently a seventeenth-century mechanical pig washed up on the beach at Findhorn Park, Frank embarks on a quest to determine the pig's authenticity. But it won't be easy, because Frank isn't the only one obsessed with antique porcine contraptions, and he's on acid.

Will Frank beat The No-Hands Cup Flipper and Fatima Michelle Vieuchanger to the punch, and definitively differentiate the original pig from the forgeries? Or will Frank lose his way in endless trailer parks, desert strip malls and spaceships, allowing his competitors to bring home all the bacon?

Holeton's hypertext mixes numerology, science fiction, Brit prog rock, eighteenth-century robotics, Boy Scouts and classic TV with a charming cadre of unreliable (and occasionally delusional) narrators, dishing up a comic, frantic narrative that recalls Monty Python in its absurdity and erudition." -- from Eastgate Systems, Inc.

This is the print short story Richard Holeton published that serves as the inspiration for his hypertext novel, Figurski at Findhorn on Acid. It appears in the print journal, Grain, and titled "Streleski on Findhorn on Acid." Holeton changes the name of the main character from Streleski to Figurski for the hypertext novel and greatly expands the story from the one and a half pages in the magazine to a work containing 354 nodes of text and 2001 hyperlinks. It is important to note that Holeton was awarded 1st Place in the Postcard Award for this short piece.