Game Enjambment is a reoccurring poetry series on games and gaming.
Doki Doki Literature Club! has quickly become one of the internet’s favorite games. Disguised as a cute visual novel where the player joins his best friend’s new literature club, it drops its innocent facade after less than an hour of gameplay. I made the mistake of not knowing anything about this game before I played it.
Content note for suicide.
I was told that the
heartbeat went “doki doki.”
Someone told me wrong.
Instead, the sound is
closer to screams, an echo,
a rope hanging down,
a ripped cord from the
ceiling. I knew I should have
walked with her to school.
Read the rest of the Game Enjambment series.
Sidequest’s former managing editor Naseem Jamnia used to do sciencey things, but they now slam their keyboard and call it art. Their debut novella, THE BRUISING OF QILWA, introduced their queernorm, Persian-inspired secondary world; their middle grade horror debut SLEEPAWAY comes out in 2025.
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