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Pauline Masurel's short story The Baby and the Bath Water was published by Byker Books as part of their Radgepacket Online project and the story Reality TV appeared online in Issue 47 of The Barcelona Review.

In December 2009 The Short Review published a review of the book Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fiction which features a title story by Pauline Masurel. The website contains reviews of short stories by short fiction writers and also has nine reviews written by Pauline Masurel, including The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Islington Crocodiles by Paul Meloy and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers.

I who...? is a webpiece created in collaboration with the artist Randy Nehila

Ten tiny stories by Pauline Masurel were published in various versions of the-phone-book.com, including three stories from the collection Currying Flavour that was written with encouragement and a generous supply of bad puns from the folks at Writers Junction.

Other very short fiction is included at fifty word fiction.

a narrowing, restricted view of the US flag

This Train: Signals Past At Danger was created with Jennifer Jaye in the final months of 2001. It is included in project hope, assembled and hosted by Reiner Strasser.

a partial, topsy-turvy view of the UK flag

The Blind Tiler's Assistant is a fictional reflection upon the nature of collaborative digital creation. It was published in February 2001 in frAme5:Digital Labour, for Love or Money.

Days Out ⁴Writers Junction are online reports of offline events. The first three include Pauline Masurel's accounts of a Writing Day in Swindon in 2003, as part of the Mslexia Ignite The Writer Roadshow, plus Helen Dunmore, Jackie Kay and Ali Smith speaking the same year about short stories and a presentation by David Crystal on Language and the Internet at the Bath Literature Festival in 2002.

Image by Randy Adams, trAce Online Writing Centre

Image: Randy Adams

Oh Google, how do I love thee? is an exploration of the pleasures and occasional pitfalls of searching the Internet. It features in the Opinion section at the trAce Online Writing Center.

Blue Hyacinth is a writer's notebook, which was originally written online over a period of six-months during 2001-2002.

Image: Randy Nehila

Claims is a Mutual Web entertainment created by Randy Adams, Everdeen Tree and Pauline Masurel. It set sail in July 2002 at Incubation2 with a demonstration of Claims Version 0.0

Then there are various activities in MOOs. These included contributions to areas in and around The Boulevard des Desseins project at Lingua MOO, such as The House of Words events, and the Lost Property Office. Anyone with a MOO character is invited to @create $thing called peace. There was also a Dual Sestina Duel, devised with Bernard Cohen, involving a pair of obsessive bots called clamjam and balagan who could be found in the trAce meeting room at Lingua.

A Speedy Solstice Stichomither, written by Maev, appeared in Alan McDonald's The Longest Day: The Shortest Day which was compiled at Summer Solstice 2000.

Miscellany is a loosely furled batch of fictions by Pauline Masurel, which are made available online. The selection, revisions and contents are subject to occasional alteration at whim.

There have also been a number of collaborative projects online over the years, including Michael Szpakowski's project, imagining ourselves, The Plant and Garden Collection of Margaret Penfold, QUICK-SHIFT, the cyber-kitchen, Clean at The Women's Library, the Imaginary Post Office run by PostMaster Randy Adams, Under the Umbrella with other students at Reading University's School of Continuing Education and various trAce projects such as The Eclipse Quilt, Home and Alan Sondheim's Lost project.