by S.R. Masters

(originally published in Press Start to Play)

Sam Atherstone had played nearly every computer game on the planet—he'd worked out the exact number not long ago and written about it on the blog that paid his bills—yet the excitement he felt when his housemate, Jamie, handed him the grey Jiffy bag that had come in the Saturday morning post caused his hands to shake so much that he couldn't get it open, and Jamie, tired of waiting, grabbed the bag from him and opened it...