Long ago, sometime in the distant future, there lived a shopkeeper named Lin. Lin was a small, wirey man, with small wirey spectacles. He kept a tidy general store on the beach of a large island called Qin. Lin lived in a room above his shop with his beautiful wife, Gwin.
Lin’s shop did very well, and he [...]
There was a time when the storyline of a video game was fairly simple, if not completely absent. The pixelated world that served as the backdrop for the game was in dire need of a hero. That hero was you. So, armed with your trusty sword/axe/bionic arm/blaster, you saw to the killin’ of the monsters [...]
As part of my struggle against apathy, I will be attempting to have a short story prepared for publication each Friday. Terrible or tremendous, I will reveal the heart of my creative spark for all to see.
Edgar was perched in his usual spot. He sat high above the sprawling mass of human ingenuity and overpopulation that was Manhattan. [...]
As a gamer that woke up one day recently and realized that he was over halfway through his 20’s, it made me think of how much my appetite for gaming has changed in the past 5 years.
As a teenager, I could play games for ages. At the height of my gaming addiction, I would play [...]
I believe that my generation is one of greatness. We did not stand on the shores of a foreign land and give our lives to overthrow a genocidal dictator. We did not fight to put an end to segregation, hosed down and beaten in the streets. We were given these things. They are the products [...]