Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog

by GennaRose Nethercott
Illustrated by Bobby DiTrani

Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog is a work of interactive fiction told through twenty-six fold-up cootie catchers (also known as paper fortune tellers, salt cellars, chatterboxes, etc).

Every month, another cranberry girl goes missing. Those who remain whisper of a ravenous beast lurking in the depths of the bog. How long before the foreman speaks Lianna's name into the water? She knows it's time to flee, but will she...

...set fires to cover her trail?
...ride a black bear's back?
...birth twin daughters in an empty barn?

The choices you make—along with the secrets buried inside the twenty-six paper fortune tellers within—will determine Lianna's fate.

Features

• 26 cootie catcher pages, ready for printing, cutting, and folding.
• Features over 200 color illustrations by artist Bobby DiTrani.
• Folding instructions and a reading guide.
• Read/play alone or with a partner.
• Each of the 26 catchers features 8 possible endings—but the endings are also beginnings, complications, transformations, and jumping-off points for other parts of the story.

Praise

"Another marvelous and whimsical narrative project from one of the most interesting small presses you're likely to encounter."
—Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble

"I absolutely adore this haunting, dark, strange, glorious work of art."
—Edward Carey, author of Little and The Iremonger Trilogy

About the Author

GennaRose Nethercott is the author of The Lumberjack's Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins), selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series. A born Vermonter, she tours nationally and internationally, performing from her works and composing poems-to-order on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter.

About the Illustrator

Bobby DiTrani spent his formative years in the once small logging town of North Bend, WA. He is a graduate of the Aristedes Classical Atelier at the Gage Academy of Art, and his work has been exhibited nationwide. When not painting or drawing, he frequently tours with his band, the DiTrani Brothers.