Eclipses are funny things. They stop the world, and we all look up together, watching that constant sun slowly disappear before our very eyes. And together, we wonder, for just a moment, if the light will ever come back.
This year the world marvelled at an unbelievable eclipse. Across the United States, people bought protective glasses to witness the astronomical phenomenon together. That Monday, I stood outside my hotel in Indianapolis, packing up my truck to head home from GenCon, the largest gaming convention in the United States. My team and I had run a very successful Dresden Files larp only two days before. In my bag, I had the IGDN Award won by War Birds, an anthology put together by Unruly Designs. The book brought together the stories of women who contributed to war: forgotten stories pushed aside by the incorrect narrative that women remained passive during conflicts and didn’t contribute actively. I contributed with a game called Keeping the Candles Lit, about the experiences of Jewish women fighting as partisans during World War II.
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