Late Thursday night I discovered Quadrant Z, an elaborate "paper and pencil game of galactic warfare." Against a buzzing background of midnight frogs and palmetto bugs I leaned forward in my chair and emptied the last dregs of coffee from my long since cooled mug. The rules can be difficult …

In my senior year of high school we read Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez. The narrator acts as an investigator who tries to piece-together what happened to Santiago Nasser. The narrator, and consequently the author, uses time to convey a sense of intensity and rising action …