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Cartridge Lit

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Publisher of poetry & prose about video games | Editors @YoungestOfOne and @prettyminotaur

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Joined March 2014
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A civilization in decline, forgetting its own foundational works and losing competency in its central endeavors
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CORRECTION: Today's Mini Crossword contained a clue that incorrectly suggested that Mario, the video game character, wears suspenders. He wears overalls. nyti.ms/3Fz7Oq6
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NEW #FICTION on Cartridge Lit today! Please welcome back returning champion Sam Martone (@s_martone), whose #story "My Bathtub in the Shape of a Bull" is inspired by #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons. cartridgelit.com/2024/11/21/…
My Bathtub in the Shape of a Bull | Cartridge Lit

My Bathtub in the Shape of a Bull | Cartridge Lit

All week, the residents anticipate Saturday night, when a dog will play guitar for us. There is no greater celebrity than this dog.

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NEW #POETRY on Cartridge Lit today! Check out "why are you playing animal crossing instead of talking to me," a #poem by Zephyr Zhang. cartridgelit.com/2024/10/23/…
why are you playing animal crossing instead of talking to me | Cartridge Lit

why are you playing animal crossing instead of talking to me | Cartridge Lit

I could not predict how quickly he would get you by the debt-strings how quickly he would become your creditor-crush your beloved bankruptor, your evergreen future foreclosure

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NEW #POETRY on Cartridge Lit today! Just in time for spooky season, please enjoy "Playing Video Games during Yet Another World-Shattering Historical Event to Control the Uncontrollable," a #poem by Sarah Gzemski (@sargzem) inspired by Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD cartridgelit.com/2024/10/02/…
Playing Video Games during Yet Another World-Shattering Historical Event to Control the Uncontrol...

Playing Video Games during Yet Another World-Shattering Historical Event to Control the Uncontrol...

We have a future history, Luigi. Last time, I focused on your resilience, because I am resilient. Is there space for us to discuss futility?

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New poem/short story/???? Up at @BlackWarriorRev's Boyfriend Village! Including illustrations by the ever-wonderful @airrum !! bwr.ua.edu/all-the-ways-to-c…
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NEW #POETRY on Cartridge Lit today! With a bit of a spoiler warning for #TearsOfTheKingdom, please check out Carmen Dolina's #poem "Link Meets the Light Dragon." cartridgelit.com/2024/09/19/…
Link Meets the Light Dragon | Cartridge Lit

Link Meets the Light Dragon | Cartridge Lit

You traded the life we recovered, your enduring self, your research, our home, all for this weeping dragon left in their stead.

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NEW POEM among us at Cartridge Lit today! Or is it? Yes it is. Unless it's an impostor?! Decide for yourself and check out "There is an impostor among us" by Kristin Gustafson (@kristinthered). cartridgelit.com/2024/09/04/…
There is an impostor among us | Cartridge Lit

There is an impostor among us | Cartridge Lit

When it comes time to vote some- one off the ship, I finish my will and tell myself that space is as good of a coffin as the body of a tree. That floating through an endless void used to be my...

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THREE NEW #POEMS on Cartridge Lit today: check out "Have a Body Again," "Hero," and "Hot Inside the Moth," #poetry by Will Vincent (@willydvincent). cartridgelit.com/2024/08/22/…
Three Poems | Cartridge Lit

Three Poems | Cartridge Lit

Choose, reader, between mind and sword: Mind grants you beaches, serenity, and vacation anxiety. Sword, politics and the blood song of football. Walk the path I shoveled for you, hug cubes dug from...

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TWO NEW #POEMS on Cartridge Lit today: check out "Sestina for the Hylian Loach" and "Eclipse (Special Stage)," #poetry by Dan Schall inspired by #Zelda and #Sonic. cartridgelit.com/2024/08/14/…
Two Poems | Cartridge Lit

Two Poems | Cartridge Lit

The fishing hole man gawks: Nobody he says, I mean nobody hauls these suckers in anymore. He stretches over the counter, strokes the dark circles, scales patterning your flesh.

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i'm saving the luigi's mansion 2 HD remake for a time when i don't have a class starting tomorrow but please read this luigi's mansion 3 poem i wrote and love dearly cartridgelit.com/2021/03/10/…
Playing Video Games during the Pandemic to Control the Uncontrollable | Cartridge Lit

Playing Video Games during the Pandemic to Control the Uncontrollable | Cartridge Lit

There is no beautiful way to tell you I’m depressed. Faced with so many compounding horrors, my body sets to slow fade, a phantom. I’ve been losing my days running headlong

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Yooooo! On Saturday at 6:30 PM ET, I'm going to be doing Mortified DC & Baltimore at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore! If you are like, "Wow, Liz, if only I lived in the DMV," fear not, as THEY ARE LIVE STREAMING IT! I'd love you if tuned in! creativealliance.org/event/m…
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Happy May Day! Cartridge Lit first started publishing work in May 2014. To celebrate a decade of videogame literature, we're bringing you ten poems this month, across five new posts, one each Wednesday. Thanks for reading!
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4 new poems today! Check out Angela Acosta's "The Ghost Racer," "Walkthrough (Age 8)," "Resemblance," and "When I Found Out the Rockets Never Left." We'll be back next week with 3 more to round out May's 10 poems to celebrate 10 years of Cartridge Lit! cartridgelit.com/2024/05/23/…
Four Poems | Cartridge Lit

Four Poems | Cartridge Lit

You are optimized integrals and algorithms without a bedtime, without friends or YouTube videos to watch, while I exist in this body with organs, yours without, the rhizomatic tendrils of an imagined...

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Concluding our celebration of 10 years of Cartridge Lit, please enjoy new poems 8 thru 10 of the month: three prose poems by Matthew Schultz inspired by Breath of the Wild's dragons and Jose Hernandez Diaz’s “The Jaguar and the Mango.” cartridgelit.com/2024/05/29/…
Three Prose Poems | Cartridge Lit

Three Prose Poems | Cartridge Lit

A man hiked through the Faron region to the ridge where he sat upon a rocky beach near the Riola Spring watching a water snake whorl in the cool-clear basin, slip-smiling between refracted sunbeams...

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Plz read my new #trans #StardewValley poem up on @CartridgeLit 👾🧑🏻‍🌾
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Next up, poem 2 of 10 is "The Computer Imagines Me a Boy" by Haley Bossé (@TalkingHyphae), inspired by #StardewValley. More to come this month as Cartridge Lit turns ten! cartridgelit.com/2024/05/08/…
The Computer Imagines Me a Boy | Cartridge Lit

The Computer Imagines Me a Boy | Cartridge Lit

Broad-chested, flat And just out of reach Perched as he is A clenching boy On his digital horse Crooked incisors flashing

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