Cooking this morning, following six weekends of intensive #flashfiction writing for Weekend Warrior with other #Codexian folks, I came across the natural sea salt, as I needed to salt the cut-up eggplant. It occurred to me, what would "unnatural sea salt" be? I'm imagining eldritch cosmic horrors emerging from a cylindrical container in the kitchen corner.
This idea is sufficiently stupid that I might try getting #ChatGpt to write the story for me, hoping for unintentional humor.
And one more great 2022 story from a #Codexian. @slhuang wrote this one in the style of a journalist--think The Atlantic or Rolling Stone--and managed to rope in a lot of real stuff about AI, complete with hyperlinks. The story you think you're reading changes into a very different one. Loved it. #WritersOfMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #Writers #AmReading #AmReadingScienceFiction #AmReadingSciFi
Still catching up on #Codexian 2022 #fiction, this one by @divyastweets is a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. It had some very clever twists that I enjoyed. #WritersOfMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #AmReading #WritingCommunity #Writers
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/two-hands-wrapped-in-gold/
My parents taught me to lie as soon as I could speak. Before I knew the meaning of the words, before I understood heat or fire, and long before I felt the pain of singed flesh, I learned to tell strangers that I burned myself by grasping a hot iron pot. Once a day, my […]
I'd seen this #shortstory from a fellow #Codexian in draft form in a Codex contest. Yeah, I was the one who came in from another division, voted it 10/10, and told the others they were crazy for not loving this one. Absolutely hysterical. I could hear Laser Squid's booming voice in my head as I read it. #AmReading #AuthorsOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon
https://escapepod.org/2022/08/18/escape-pod-850-laser-squid-goes-house-hunting/
If you’re reading this---on some godforsaken imageboard, or dog-eared book page, or in encrypted base pairs sequenced off 3D-printed oligos---you’re probably grappling with a pretty tough decision right now. Breathe. I’m not judging you. I know how it goes. You tried your best but nothing’s infallible, or you slipped up one night, or he just straight-up went, your biological clock’s ticking, and hacked your birth control, knowing once it happens you won’t have a choice. The second his sperm enters your egg, he’s done, back to his star-studded career cranking out Science and Cell papers.
Allan Dyen-Shapiro
