Finding Aid

The archives are vast and winding. Still, flipping through papers, facts resonate: a connection made, a person and place and time pulled into focus. You are separated by time and material but still yearn to tell your stories, to hold off the oblivion of history a little longer.

Finding Aid is a letter-writing game for two players trying to connect across the vast distances of history. A hack of Beyond Reach by Annie Johnston-Glick. Written for Correspondence Jam!

“History pledges to be faithful to the limits of fact, evidence, and archive, even as those dead certainties are produced by terror. I wanted to write a romance that exceeded the fictions of history—I longed to write a new story…”
– Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts”