Psycho Wand, My Beloved [short story on gaming addiction]
Psycho Wand, My Beloved [short story on gaming addiction]
David was a normal middle-aged man with a wife, a mortgage, and some cats … until he got his hands on Phantasy Star Online.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14812704
a short story / black comedy i wrote about gaming addiction and the value of digital treasures
if you read it, let me know what you think.
(written with over 70 footnotes that add context and flavor to the '90s-00s setting. some of the footnotes are paragraphs long. the footnotes are not necessary to understand the story as they function more as a way to break the third person perspective to provide context & personal stories around the various 90s-2000s things that pop up throughout the story. NOTE: if you read on the site, you can click a footnote number, then click the arrow after the actual footnote to take you back. you can also skip the footnotes entirely if breaking up the text takes you out of the story too much.)