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Publisher of poetry & prose about video games | Editors William Hoffacker and J. Bowers | https://cartridgelit.com/
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For gamers who read, and readers who game: this one’s for you.
Each story in The Earth Room is its own strange, beautiful world (some even inspired by the games you know and love!).
Dana Diehl’s newest collection arrives January 20. Preorder now via the link below.
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Each story in The Earth Room is its own strange, beautiful world (some even inspired by the games you know and love!).
Dana Diehl’s newest collection arrives January 20. Preorder now via the link below.
buff.ly/DgHXRLa
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
For gamers who read, and readers who game: this one’s for you.
Each story in The Earth Room is its own strange, beautiful world (some even inspired by the games you know and love!).
Dana Diehl’s newest collection arrives January 20. Preorder now via the link below.
buff.ly/DgHXRLa
Each story in The Earth Room is its own strange, beautiful world (some even inspired by the games you know and love!).
Dana Diehl’s newest collection arrives January 20. Preorder now via the link below.
buff.ly/DgHXRLa
NEW #poetry on Cartridge Lit today! Check out Orlantae Duncan's #poem "To the Lighthouse," inspired by #FinalFantasyVIII.
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To the Lighthouse | Cartridge Lit
Memory wouldn’t work anymore: too much war, or school, or new names Taking up space where our laughter used to hide-and-seek each other. And the lighthouse? It remains beside the ruins of the o...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
NEW #poetry on Cartridge Lit today! Check out Orlantae Duncan's #poem "To the Lighthouse," inspired by #FinalFantasyVIII.
cartridgelit.com/2025/11/19/t...
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NEW #poetry on Cartridge Lit today! Check out Lalini Shanela Ranaraja's #poem "When the Lord’s Work Is Over, I Will Race You to Rainbow Road," inspired by Mario Kart 8.
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When the Lord's Work Is Over, I Will Race You to Rainbow Road | Cartridge Lit
And then we're off to the races, and it's been a long tour in America, year after year of learning to read between the lines of her well-sold dreams — shopping malls! Highways! Cop shows! Liberty and ...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
NEW #poetry on Cartridge Lit today! Check out Lalini Shanela Ranaraja's #poem "When the Lord’s Work Is Over, I Will Race You to Rainbow Road," inspired by Mario Kart 8.
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you gotta click through for the footnotes and thus for the full power of Kristin Gustafson's piece today, but here's enough of a teaser to make you do said clicking through...
https://www.havehashad.com/2jj6l
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September 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
you gotta click through for the footnotes and thus for the full power of Kristin Gustafson's piece today, but here's enough of a teaser to make you do said clicking through...
https://www.havehashad.com/2jj6l
https://www.havehashad.com/2jj6l
NEW #poetry on Cartridge Lit today! Check out Tristan Beiter's #poem "Solanum," inspired by the game #OuterWilds.
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Solanum | Cartridge Lit
When I tell you I cried, I mean that solanums are the largest genus in the family Solanacae, the nightshades, flowering plants both beautiful and dangerous, as we learn many things are—I am reminded, ...
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September 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
NEW #poetry on Cartridge Lit today! Check out Tristan Beiter's #poem "Solanum," inspired by the game #OuterWilds.
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E-galleys are ready to go! Let me know if you or anyone you know would be interested in doing a review or interview. 🤩
September 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
E-galleys are ready to go! Let me know if you or anyone you know would be interested in doing a review or interview. 🤩
NEW #fiction on Cartridge Lit today! Check out Joseph Randolph's #story "Where the Skybox Tears," inspired by decaying and overstretched MMORPGs, e.g., late-expansion-era World of Warcraft, EverQuest, and the pre-Realm Reborn collapse of Final Fantasy XIV.
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Where the Skybox Tears | Cartridge Lit
“I tried to uninstall consciousness,” Jim muttered, his eyes flat—rendered without specular mapping, glassy from frame-rate decay. “Didn’t take.” He sounded like someone who had run too many diagnosti...
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August 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
NEW #fiction on Cartridge Lit today! Check out Joseph Randolph's #story "Where the Skybox Tears," inspired by decaying and overstretched MMORPGs, e.g., late-expansion-era World of Warcraft, EverQuest, and the pre-Realm Reborn collapse of Final Fantasy XIV.
cartridgelit.com/2025/08/13/w...
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NEW #poetry on Cartridge Lit today! Check out Rayne Alarcio's #poems inspired by #FFXIV: "My pronouns are He/ro/Man/iac," "The Gold Saucer gives me desert depression flashbacks," and "Instead, life."
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Three FFXIV Poems | Cartridge Lit
My cousin calls The Gold Saucer the in-game casino, and I think back to the backseat, en route to Vegas, sandwiched between her and her brother, my shoulders aching.
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June 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
NEW #poetry on Cartridge Lit today! Check out Rayne Alarcio's #poems inspired by #FFXIV: "My pronouns are He/ro/Man/iac," "The Gold Saucer gives me desert depression flashbacks," and "Instead, life."
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