This is an exerpt from a powerful memoir that recounts the author's world (together with his family), growing up in middle-class suburbia, from Sputnik to the present, and writes of the great institutions--the government, the multinational corporations, the church, the suburban tract home neighborhood--in which his family put their faith, and how that faith was betrayed.
An American in Paris - This episode relates lived experiences and stories about Americans living and settling in Paris, a city historically known for its open attitude towards them. Yet these narratives also reveal some idiosyncracies in the notion of Paris as a romantic and dreamy place.
Penguin Publishing's site, We Tell Stories, makes use of various digital media (blogging, flash games, etc) to tell a selection of short stories. The first story, Charles Cumming's The 21 Steps, makes use of digital maps to literally trace out the movements of the protagonist and is an interesting method of storytelling.