Richard Holeton's Figurski at Findhorn on Acid is a collection of comic episodes that create a theme and variations. The plot of each episode is simple: three characters (Frank Figurski, Nguyen Van Tho, and Fatima Michelle Vieuchanger) try to snatch one or both of two mechanical pigs (Rosellini's 1737 Mechanical Pig and an exact replica of said pig) from each other and from their adversaries. Each episode is written in a different genre, creating some incredibly inventive forms of communication (one episode, for example, is a series of conference announcements).

As "017" indicates, Figurski runs through every combination of up to three characters meeting in one of three places with up to three "artifacts" (LSD, spam, and a pig). This organization makes itself obvious from the very start. The first lexia after the instructions ("Navigator") is a list of "Character Options," "Place Options," and "Artifact Options" (in addition to a helpful timeline and access to all of the notes), giving the reader quick access to any combination he or she wants. Lexias have two titles. One is a color-coded list of the variables in the lexia ("Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" or "The No-Hands Cup Flipper at Findhorn with Spam"), the other an accessible numbering system taking the place of individual titles (like most Storyspace works). (For example, the page which combines Figurski and Nguyen at Findhorn on Acid with Spam is numbered 2.2.01.) In Storyspace's Map View of the work, the lexias are so hierarchized they look like a textbook flowchart. Figurski aims to make its organization so clear as to almost satirize the disorientation of its predecessors. While you will never find yourself lost in the text as you would in Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, or as you would find yourself "lost in a good book," Figurski creates an aesthetic wholly new to both print literature and canonical hypertexts.