This is a piece I wrote during an MFA workshop today. I knew I wanted to write about The Last of Us somehow in this workshop, and the prompt we were given was to write a piece in the form of a letter. So I decided to write a fragmented letter to the creator of the game, Neil Druckmann. This is the draft of that letter.

Dear Neil,

You made me kill a nurse but you also inspired my largest tattoo to date. So this is a thank you letter. But not like the kind you feel obligated to write after a wedding. This is the kind you can’t not write, at least in your own head, when something changes you, brings back a part of you you thought was dead.