The Heavy Pour I’ve Been Eaten by a Grue By Sara Clemens • April 14th, 2023 How I learned to stop worrying and love the text-based adventure.
The Heavy Pour The Monsters We Make By Sara Clemens • December 13th, 2022 As storytellers, the monsters we make are so often just mirrors.
The Heavy Pour What to Do for Dinner By Sara Clemens • June 7th, 2022 Some people make decisions like *that.*
A Fool’s Cap and a Plate of Ice Cream By Peter Newell and Sara Clemens • May 11th, 2022 Better a witty fool than a foolish wit!
The Heavy Pour Extra Lives By Sara Clemens • April 5th, 2022 I can hunch over Electronic Gaming Monthly in the magazine aisle and pretend to be another angsty videogame geek. Everyone knows those are boys.
The Heavy Pour I Know You Are but What Am I? By Sara Clemens • January 10th, 2022 Little Sara sends a message to an old pal.
The Heavy Pour Return with the Elixir By Sara Clemens • November 10th, 2021 Dispatches from a post-pandemic New York Comic Con.
The Heavy Pour Christmas Time is Here By Sara Clemens • December 1st, 2020 Fact: There is one single, perfect, perennial Christmas album.
The Heavy Pour With Friends Like These: A Wasteland Verse of TrickyPixie83 By Sara Clemens • October 6th, 2020 “I take damage, I take damage!”
The Heavy Pour Buddies By Sara Clemens • August 12th, 2020 Social distancing can be lonely. Animal Crossing makes it a little less so.
The Heavy Pour Journal of a Plague Spring By Sara Clemens • July 15th, 2020 The world’s on fire, might as well write.
The Heavy Pour This Time It’s Personal By Sara Clemens • November 6th, 2019 Sara got to meet Pee-wee Herman at this year’s NYCC and only freaked out a little.
The Heavy Pour You’ll Float Too By Sara Clemens • October 11th, 2019 Sara muses on the weirdly seductive quality of clowns. Exhibit A: Pennywise.
The Heavy Pour Faking it to Make It: GLOW and the Power of Performance By Sara Clemens • September 5th, 2019 GLOW is a love letter to performance and the way it intertwines with work and life.
The Heavy Pour Performing the Play By Sara Clemens • July 2nd, 2019 Sara gets hype over E3’s Dying Light 2 demo, glorious goofs and all.
The Heavy Pour Into the Mystic By Sara Clemens • June 10th, 2019 If you’re one of the rare few terrified by horses, they’re pretty easy to avoid. Unless you play videogames.
The Heavy Pour A Subtler Magick Filled the Air: Exploring The Sinking City By Sara Clemens • May 7th, 2019 Traversing the flooded streets of The Sinking City left a lasting impression on Sara.
The Heavy Pour Nick Fury is Doing the Dishes By Sara Clemens • April 5th, 2019 Vulnerability as strength is something Fury understands. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
The Heavy Pour Beat It By Sara Clemens • March 12th, 2019 You know what makes an otherwise interesting game unplayable? Casual racism.
The Heavy Pour Get Your Kicks at the Cosmic Horrorshow: A True Story By Sara Clemens • January 9th, 2019 On a Route 66 roadtrip, Sara asks: “What am I doing in the middle of this godforsaken desert?”
The Heavy Pour Sucking Blood from the Earth By Sara Clemens • November 30th, 2018 Between the nightmare of daily news and the ethical quandaries of playing games by any triple-A developer, it’s hard to be assed to play games these days.
The Heavy Pour New Gods By Sara Clemens • November 2nd, 2018 New York Comic Con is a monument to hype with amusements deliberately designed to part fans from their money and/or time, but Sara would hate to miss the fantasy.
The Heavy Pour Station to Station By Sara Clemens • October 2nd, 2018 When stuck sweaty on an overheated subway platform, it’s hard for Sara not to think that she could do a better job managing things. With Mini Metro, she can give it a shot.
The Heavy Pour Death Rattles By Sara Clemens • August 17th, 2018 AMC’s The Terror understands that, sometimes, the Arctic’s silence haunts most of all.
The Heavy Pour Our Town By Sara Clemens • July 13th, 2018 Nothing says summer like mystery, and the point-and-click adventure Unforseen incidents stirs up half-remembered recollections of murder cases and childhood towns.
The Heavy Pour Hell Hath No Fury By Sara Clemens • May 14th, 2018 The anger at the heart of A Wrinkle in Time.
The Heavy Pour It’s the Little Things, Kiddo! By Sara Clemens • March 27th, 2018 Thankfully, simple pleasures aren’t hard to come by.
The Heavy Pour Let It Snow By Sara Clemens • January 4th, 2018 Suddenly memory merges with the present and I break away from the slow lane to run at full speed in the middle of the path.
The Heavy Pour More Like RAD-narok By Sara Clemens • November 30th, 2017 Thor Ragnarok taps the best kind of nostalgia – for a time and place, rather than for a piece of merchandise.
The Heavy Pour Who Needs the Devil When You’ve Got the Lord? By Sara Clemens • October 6th, 2017 Is Agent Dale Cooper still the hero of this story?