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Publisher of poetry & prose about video games | Editors William Hoffacker and J. Bowers | https://cartridgelit.com/
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 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
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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...

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September 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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
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September 24, 2025 at 4:00 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.

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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 #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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