Jennifer Worrell

Check your spam folders, y'all. I found some important submission-related emails in there, because GMail ain't what it used to be.

#enshittificationofeverythingcontinues

A companion piece you might also enjoy, in essay form
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Flash Fiction: A Period of Adjustment by Jennifer Worrell By Jennifer Worrell

One of my favorite pieces about the end of the world has found a new home, squirrels and all.
Thank you, Quail Bell. (RIP Raconteur.)
www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-2...

Always late to my own party. I wrote my first poem ever, about the state of things.
Thank you, @asitoughttobe.bsky.social.
asitoughttobemagazine.com/jennifer-wor...

Stealing from my friend Elias...what a genius idea. You can choose a specific station if you want to.

OOo adopt a station, genius!

Anybody watching the latest Dexter?

Midnight:
1am:
2am:
3am:
4am: 🎶According to our new arrival
Life is more than mere survival
We just might live the good life yet.🎶

"I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat." —Will Rogers

Researching a short story like: how would the government mail knitting needles
#writerslife

No Nobel Peace Prize for Trump! Only four U.S. presidents have ever received the Nobel Peace Prize: Theodore Roosevelt (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1919), Jimmy Carter (2002), and Barack Obama (2009). And all of them received the prize f...

I love a good joke, but HOLY SHIT. LMAO no. NOOOOO

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Everyone reading this has this cat's expression. LMAO, perfecto

Has anyone explained this one yet?

Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump’s newly released AI Action Plan.

...They're used, as a person would, to learn and produce amazing technology that two federal courts have already said is ‘spectacularly transformative.’”"

So AI is people, gotcha. Sounds equal to the Citizens United horseshit.
www.wired.com/story/presid...

"Those who want AI companies to...train on copyrighted works w/o licensing the material are celebrating. “Common sense dictates that requiring gen-AI developers to license the copyrighted works they're trained on is both not doable and makes little sense, because those works are not plagiarized. ...

Trump’s Comments Undermine AI Action Plan, Threaten Copyright The White House's new artificial intelligence strategy document advocated rapid implementation of AI, while failing to address the issue of copyright beyond saying the government should effectively ad...

“We are getting rid of woke,” he said on Wednesday.

Wanting to be paid for your work is woke now?

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Enshittification of everything continues.
""You can’t be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or anything else that you’ve read or studied, you’re supposed to pay for. 'Gee, I read a book,' you're supposed to pay somebody," Trump said. "...It’s not doable." ...

Awww nobody can replace Tom Lehrer :(

I've had "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" and "Alma" in my head for weeks.

Hopefully I didn't post this before but my memory is shit.

Do you think short story collections need to be connected by a theme of some sort?

Please give me details if you're so inclined.

(Hey wait, you can't do polls on here? :( )

What's Included in the 596 Books Banned by the Department of Defense Education Activity? Here is the list of nearly 600 books banned by the Department of Defense in military schools across the globe.

More bullshit - from America - again. Love this freedom thing
bookriot.com/whats-includ...

Bye, Google!

Wondering if The Marx Brothers movies count as kishōtenketsu

*writing community goes apeshit *

What are you talking about? This is exactly what I needed.

How to Save a Dog For nearly a year, a motley crew scoured New Orleans for a shaggy white mutt named Scrim.

For @newyorker.com, I share the story of a little white dog, unwanted and set for euthanasia, his escape, and the nine surreal months an unlikely team spent trying to rescue him. It's about as New Orleans a story as you can get. 🧵 www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

*brainstorming*

Maybe this story doesn't *need* the face transplant

Get a great root beer and have a laugh. Port Drive-In, Chesterton, IN

Near 27th & Eleanor, Chicago

"Cry 'Havoc!' and release the dogs of war"

Dogs: oh boy, outside, outside!!

Publisher Interview * Erin Cairns I met Erin Cairns through a writers’ group, which led me to her phenomenal speculative fiction aggregator, InkFoundry. She’s also a writer and editor, and she creates gorgeous art. Huge thanks to E…

And check out this nifty publisher interview between InkFoundry's Erin Cairns and Myna Chang:
mynachang.com/2025/05/16/p...