Every story begins somewhere — in a margin note, a misheard phrase, the slant of afternoon light through a window someone once described. Stitched Stories is the belief that literature does not end on the page where it was printed. It migrates. It settles into other mouths, other memories, other hands that reach for a pen at two in the morning because something they read years ago has finally surfaced as something they need to say.
This is a graph of those migrations. At its centre: source texts — the works that have travelled furthest, that have lodged most stubbornly in the cultural body. Radiating outward: the stories they have made possible. Each connection is a stitch. Each stitch holds something together that would otherwise drift apart.
The first nodes in this graph are SS-0001, SS-0002, and SS-0003. From each, stories branch outward.
What you are reading now is the knot at the centre of the thread. Pull gently.