Almost everything I write is filled with easter eggs. This is part video game and part nod to the canon of literature that comes before us. I feel like literature is not only the story itself but everything that informs the story, and that’s a deep gift for readers.
“Have you played Mortal Kombat without blood? It’s…” I stopped, thought of the right word. “It’s pointless.”
But it wasn’t because of the rape
stands and electrocutions; it was because you ran circles around my linebackers on Madden 2004.
I took a flash fiction class with Chad Simpson when my senior year of college. I wrote a flash fiction piece titled “I hate video games.”
Just the migraine medication, please, or Vicodin, Oxycodone, heroin, anything to numb the pain in her scalp, the strain of weight on her roots, the sea sickness, the constant spinning, spinning, spinning.
We think video games are literature, and so why shouldn't there be literature about video games? That's the question we're hoping to answer here. Read more.
