Sister Stories from a literary perspective Among the Mexica, "the good scribe," it is said in the Codex Florentino, "knew very well the genealogies of the lords" and of him it was said, "He links the people well; he places them in order." Sister stories know a different order, they link not by placing but by finding places within which to be. They know very well what, in The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein called "all the kinds of ways there can be seen to be kinds of men and women." Hypertext, a linking technology, tells of different orders. Hyperfiction artists Carolyn Guyer and Michael Joyce together with archaeologist Rosemary Joyce (Michael's sister) collaborated on this hyperfiction, Sister Stories, which explores ways to be women and men. Building from the mythological story of Coyolxauhqui, sister to Huitzilopochtli, and using postmodern apposition, they reconsider the nature of telling and of reading, of being inside and outside a story, a place, a field, a history, a text . . . . They created this work with the hope that "in a history of many men and women," as Stein says, "sometimes there will be a history of every one."