Yeonsoo Julian Kim is a game designer and cultural consultant who designs tabletop RPGs, LARPs, card games, and writes interactive fiction. Some of their games include the interactive horror novel The Fog Knows Your Name published by Choice of Games, and the card game Battle of the Boybands published by Game and a Curry. Other games they have contributed to include Kids on Bikes, Teens in Space, Magical Kitties Save the Day, Mutants and Masterminds, and they are currently working on Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game. Their game about using food metaphors to talk about BDSM in secret, Pass the Sugar, Please, can be found in Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games.
Across the train tracks from BWI station, a portal shimmered in the shade of a patch of tall trees. From her seat on a northbound train taking on passengers, Dottie watched a woman slip a note out of her pocket, place it under a rock, strip off her work uniform, then walk naked, smiling, into the portal.
In this episode of SH@25, Editor Kat Kourbeti sits down with Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li to discuss her foray into poetry, screenwriting, music composition and more, and also presents a reading of her two poems published in 2022, 'Ave Maria' and 'The Mezzanine'.
