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Three new pieces in The Journal of Wordplay including a poetic puzzle I've been working on with my professor on-and-off for a year! Find it on pages 30-34 here (for best results, print out if you can):
journalofwordplay.com/TJoW14…
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writing a cozy victorian murder mystery novel and if the cops were to check my cookies it would not be good, because there is arsenic baked in the cookies
writing a novel about a serial killer, and if the cops were to check my cookies it would not be good. "how long does it take to strangle somebody to death" "what poison did russians use" "does chloroform really work?"
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One of the most flags of all time and one of the best/only examples I've seen of "satirical vexillology" is this early 20th-cent. proposal for a Portuguese flag poking fun at the ideological turmoil by throwing in every possible mutually contradictory symbol
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Interesting to read their glosses for "existential" from right *before* the AI boom and AI existential risk being commonly discussed. There is even a section heading "Big Tech"!... in which the "existential threat" is the legal threat TO tech monopolies:
dictionary.com/articles/word…
.@Dictionarycom’s Words of the Year over the last decade:
2026: Maxxing
2025: 67
2024: Demure
2023: Hallucinate
2022: Woman
2021: Allyship
2020: Pandemic
2019: Existential
2018: Misinformation
2017: Complicit
2016: Xenophobia
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This weird, unliterary story actually had a few different points of origin I ended up twisting together. The challenge to write a narrative without scene was part of it, but also there was a story ending I loved—a schlocky (but delightful) metnarrative twist ending in an old 1/2
My new science fiction story “D.G.S.F.” is up at Bewildering Stories! Written from spite: a mentor insists fiction is inherently visual & the reader must always be able to picture the scene. So I set out to write a story where you could NEVER picture the scene & there's NO visual
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2/2 Fredric Brown mobster story from the 40s that seemed dependent on the medium of print and the physical presence of the reader to pull off---I wanted to try coming up with a variation of that twist that would work on a webpage the reader might be browsing at any place or time
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It does not exist anymore alas but a great addition to "CIA-tied literary magazine" conversation would have been the KGB lit mag (associated with the KGB bar in New York, where years back I did a few readings in the aptly-named Red Room):
x.com/kgbbarlitmag
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It's actually "pa, in st., a king," which comes from an old fable in which a boy calls his father to the window because he recognizes the monarch lying out in the street, and the king rewards the boy for his meticulous attention to detail once reinstated
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Someone did!
journalofwordplay.com/
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just remembered the guy on here who said Nolan was being heavy handed by naming Ryan Hurst’s character “Mentor” in the odyssey
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I usually just let ghosting editors ghost and log it as a rejection, but a few days ago I shot out some passive-aggressive emails to places that never replied and as a result just broke my record for longest elapsed time between submission and rejection (2 days after this reply)
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