Interactive narratives have no singular, definitive beginnings and endings.

Some more recent works in progress on the Web undermine the necessity of multiple beginnings or endings. Douglas qualifies this characteristic by disregarding brief, introductory screens and orientations to a text as true beginnings. Even accepting this qualifier, it is hard to see this characteristic in works like Erik Loyer's Chroma, or M. D. Coverly's Book of Going Forth By Day. Chroma's prologue is more than an orientation, and reading The Book of Going Forth by Day in its current form demonstrates its need for a definitive ending. These texts use the interactive and multilinear potential of hypertext, but in a way that seriously questions the necessity of not having a beginning or ending.