[JaguarXKE]

created Layne as an experiment in "interactive fiction."

Well, now we know where MoveOn.blah got the idea for interactive fiction.

[hole_n_one]

CGEB

*ping*

[Lijahsbubbe]

More cyber scamerama!

[KarlInOhio]

This gives me hope that the New York Times will one day disappear and the real authors will admit to the hoax.

[Mike Fieschko]

The cartoon which started it all? (from The New Yorker, 1993):

[Ken H]

Looks like I may to have to change my tagline.

[xm177e2]

In a telephone interview, Soli said the character helped him deal with the pressures of his own life, including a rare disease that is killing him

It sounds like he's still bulls----ing.

[malakhi]

Now the person behind Layne has come forward and admitted that it was all an elaborate hoax. ... And it demonstrates how easy it is for the Internet to foster intimacy among total strangers.

Fortunately, nothing like this ever happens on FR.

[NYCVirago]

In 2001, he was diagnosed with a rare heart disease that he says will likely kill him before he is 50.

Why should we believe this guy is really sick? He's already hoaxed people once.

[Dog Gone]

At one point, she revealed she was raped, causing her to re-examine her sexual identity and become a lesbian.

Same thing happened to me.

[Floratina]

and she lived Deep In The Hurtgen Forest..

[Rebelbase]

If someone comes along and tells me FARK isn't real I'll be depressed.

[Old Professer]

This is why I waste no time on compassion.