Retrogamer: Passive Participation

Michael B. Tager

July 25, 2017

The last time I played a Castlevania game was during the Reagan administration. So how in the hell do I know Alucard’s backstory? How do I know who Trevor Belmont is? This isn’t knowledge that arrives via osmosis, like talk radio or work conversation.

‘Main Character Disease’ and other poems

Geramee Hensley

June 3, 2015

I leave a deep wound.
And between you and me,

nothing should be as crammable
as putty,

but when asked
what I mean to you

you didn’t blink once