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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…
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
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
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
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):
xitter.cf/kgbbarlitmag
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
Someone did!
journalofwordplay.com/
Daniel Galef retweeted
just remembered the guy on here who said Nolan was being heavy handed by naming Ryan Hurst’s character “Mentor” in the odyssey
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)
If I were the serpent with no wings and no crown I would be envious of the serpent that gets to have wings and a crown, essential unity and eternal recurrence and what-have-you be damned
In retrospect I think when I posted this people thought I was talking about the shadows but I was talking about the lizards
Never mind! Found it. I am a good Searcher
xitter.cf/bepsikoler/status/2112…
