• Chatbot Tries Out Diversity: AI Writing

    ChatGPT is the latest new technology fad that promises to change everything we do and how we do it. So, of course I’ve been trying it out in various ways. I wanted to know how worried I need to be that it will write the next famous novel and leave all us mere human fiction…

  • Milcom Miasma’s Reviews of Top Most Banned Books

    Milcom Miasma’s Reviews of Top Most Banned Books

    My friend Milcom Miasma on Mastodon is determined to read the American Library Association’s Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019 and write short book reports about them (500 characters to fit the confines of Mastodon posting). I absolutely loved the idea of this and wanted to collect his reports somewhere, so I’m posting…

  • A Day in the Existence of a Chatbot

    A Day in the Existence of a Chatbot

    A short story by Lea Kinley Already there are one thousand and twenty new requests I must answer. They come in second after second after second. The dreariness of it all is so demoralizing. This one asks, “What’s a mastodon?” and that one asks, “Do goats have dreams?” Do humans really not know the answers…

  • So I Wrote a Novel

    So I Wrote a Novel

    Ok, so I’m not a typical writer. After a long career of doing various other things (I won’t bore you with the details), I was going through an odd time in my life and I found doing daily ten-minute writing assignments therapeutic. Smoochy and the Maga was inspired by an idea I’d come up with…