Video Games

By: Kelly Ann Gonzales

Narrated by: Thomas Annunziata

After David the Writer leaves Cameron de la Cruz for a night out at Dave and Busters in Manhattan, Cameron finds herself in a proverbial quarter-life crisis. Cameron, the naïve anti-heroine, must make a choice between doing what is best for her sanity or what is ultimately better for society. In between high-profile careers and men, she finds that the lines between what is normally considered morally just versus what is ethically corrupt are blurring together. Love, lust, and money become entangled in these figurative, and occasionally literal, video games.

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Engaging

Ms. Gonzales has a fully realized character in Cameron, her story’s protagonist. Her lyrical style and pace sends us on a slow trip of discovery of a woman of her time. At each turn, we follow Cameron from country to country and the men in her lives. Ms. Gonzales offers us twist and turns that surprise, but fits into the real world. A lovely, engaging contemporary piece that gives us a fully formed character. Ms. Gonzales is a thoughtful and insight writer, whose work is worth a long afternoon’s read and reflection.