Meet the Mormon Gamer Who Took Dungeons & Dragons Online

In late November, a college senior at Brigham Young University named Nick Walton published a short fable called "My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights." In the story, written in the second person, you are a goblin. "I am a goblin!" you say proudly. "And I'm glad to be one." "Well then, congratulations," says the orc captain. Over the course of a few hundred words, some big things happen: You ask if you can join the orc band.