One key focus of the new Laboratory for Advanced Computing Initiatives (LACI), which has been opened in the expanded New Media Center space on the first floor of Skiles, has been building prototypes of multisequential, multiform stories and authoring tools for nonprogrammers that will promote expressive and coherent storytelling. These prototypes and tools have particular relevance to the emerging broadband environment -- the merger of the Web, cd-rom, film, and television, which will open up the possibilities of new fictional, non-fictional, and educational story formats.