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This work introduce a framework that defines interactive replay stories in terms of the depth and breadth of their parameters, and identify two dominant structural approaches--branching and gated architectures--that shape how these stories unfold. Three research questions guide this inquiry. First, I identify the design challenges unique to interactive replay stories, including narrative dead-ends, managing levels of abstraction, translating interactor inputs into dramatic actions, and fostering meaningful repetition across replays. Second, I propose a set of design principles--granularity, discourse play, and parallelism--and a toolkit of building blocks to guide future creators, each supporting narrative variation while preserving coherence and navigability. Employing a Research through Design (RtD) approach, I developed the \u003Cem\u003ETimeline Player and Creator\u003C\/em\u003E, which explore branching structures with seven fellow authors, and refined the design considerations that inform these principles and building blocks. Finally, I ask how new platforms like virtual reality (VR) can enrich the aesthetics of replay stories; VR leverages the affordances of presence, virtual body ownership, and perspective-taking, enabling interactors to engage with storyworlds through shifting contexts and identities. Continuing the RtD approach, I prototyped \u003Cem\u003ESunshine Express\u003C\/em\u003E, a gated VR experience that examines how virtual reality affordances can support replay aesthetics; an exploratory user study followed, surfacing design considerations for iconic gestures in VR. 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