Randolph Carter of Boston was last seen exiting his car and walking in the direction of the old Carter homestead in the hills outside Arkham Massachusetts. Investigators said that the ruins of the ancestral home had been disturbed and that a man's handkerchief had been found just outside a natural cave locals call "The Snake Den". Recent storms have left investigators with little hope of finding footprints that could lead to the discovery of Carter's ultimate whereabouts.
I got my Super Nintendo Entertainment System when I was eleven years old. That's a couple years after it first came out. The occasion was a little dramatic: to celebrate the end of a two-and-a-half year course of treatment for cancer. I had no idea that it would be waiting for me at home after the final doctors visit. It was a nice spring day, the trees were waving gently in the breeze outside the bay windows. With a cup of tea resting on the coffee table, I set down to play. What was that first game? It was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past . Around twenty years later, my SNES still works as does that Zelda cartridge. It's been a long way from boyhood in Southern Connecticut to manhood in North Houston, but I'm still playing. Why am I still playing? There were stretches when I didn't. Many times, I've just been too busy. There were also seasons when it felt embarrassing to still be playing video games....
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