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The article discusses focalization theory in the context of digital fiction. The author analyzes two digital fiction stories "The Lair of the Marrow Monkey” by Erik Loyer and “The Last Day of Betty Nkomo” by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. He explains focalization in print narratives, describes how digital fiction incorporates focalization, and explores the concepts of cybernetic narration and point of action.

The article discusses the widespread shift of narrative technique in the American short stories. Accordingly, the efforts to theorize the short stories focuses on the sense of unity in the story to the familiarity of an individual's point of view. It mentions the waning Uncle Charles Principle or UCP technique and the A&P Principle. It states that by pinpointing both the waning principle and the strategy, it is not only tracing the literary evolution, but also locate the significance in the place occupied by fiction and by other forms of narrative.