In “The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog,” that starts with the character the players puppeteer. They’re new on the job on the party train, and we christen them with a name of our choosing.

If you want to know the full story, all 4,149 words of JC the Hyena can be read here.The short version is that the author plays the game, titled “Sonic.exe,” and finds three levels in which ...