The present article reports a research project developed by the HIMINI research group, entitled "The Impact of a Hypermedial Environment on the Understanding and Production Processes of Verbal Artistic Texts by Students of Fifth Grade at Primary School".The main aim of this study is to investigate the effects that a hypermedial environment, produced by this research group, may have on the fifth grade students' learning of literature.The artistic texts that are central to this study are Short-short Stories and flash fiction.The main findings suggest that there is progress in the understanding and production of these types of literary texts, that the digital gap among the students who used the hipermedial environment is reduced, and that it fosters colective virtual intelligence with literary purposes.