The emergence of e-literature -- texts created on and for digital devices -- has coincided with innovative, transgressive methods of storytelling. "Pry," an iOS-based text, exemplifies e-literature's potential to rethink traditional narrative conventions. Rather than depict the real-world as we experience it (i.e. mimesis), "Pry" features metaleptic elements (i.e. jarring transgressions across narrative levels) and unnatural temporality (i.e. nonlinear, contradictory jumps across time). This article traces how a graduate class of librarians and preservice teachers responded to "Pry's" unnatural narratology through multimodal composition and annotation. Findings suggest that e-literature may demand more expansive repertoires of text interpretation and relationality.