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ChatGPT is a HUSTLER

Chatgpt is a hustler. You’ve met hustlers who are glib, and use glitzy, sweet or high-carb elements plucked from some repository of trite…

Mar 12, 2023

Mar 12, 2023

John Shirley

All humanity lives at the bottom of a seven-story building shaped like a seven-stroked lightning…

Most people on this first, lowest floor deny there is any better light. They shuffle about and make do, and contrive comforting…

Aug 26

Aug 26

John Shirley

A Fence Around the Light

Oct 25, 2023

Oct 25, 2023

John Shirley

God: Now Under Investigation? God better get a lawyer.

Debating with friends in email about whether or not there can be empirical evidence of God. I suggested there are varying views about what…

Oct 25, 2023

Oct 25, 2023

John Shirley

I SAW A SPIDER THROW A SPEAR

I saw a SPIDER THROW A TWIG yesterday….I watched Brunhilde the garden spider repair her web after a windy night. I don’t generally like…

Jul 11, 2023

Jul 11, 2023

John Shirley

TO LIVE AND DIE IN GOOGLETOWN

— flash fiction by John Shirley

Jun 27, 2023

Jun 27, 2023

John Shirley

FLIBBERTIGIBBET: A flash-fiction tale of rushed technology, privatization, and AIs…

Dwayne Dwidget, Chairman of Flibbertigibbet Incorporated, leaned back in his plush boardroom chair, started to speak — then noticed the…

May 14, 2023

May 14, 2023

John Shirley

CHOCOHOLICS ARISE! Get the lead out…of chocolate!

“Consumer Reports found dangerous heavy metals in chocolate from Hershey’s, Theo, Trader Joe’s, and other popular brands.” Lead poisoning…

Mar 6, 2023

Mar 6, 2023

John Shirley

A CONVERSATION WITH MY DOG ABOUT A DEAD BABY

“You canines sure are a mixed bag,” I told my dog. “Here it is in the news today: Ten month old baby killed by the family dogs. That was in…

May 26, 2021

May 26, 2021

John Shirley

THE APOCALYPSE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

The act of revealing, or disclosure — that’s what the word apocalypse used to mean. It meant revelation. It meant a rent in the veil; an…

May 23, 2021

May 23, 2021

John Shirley

John Shirley

Author of numerous novels, including Demons, City Come A-Walkin’, Stormland and the A Song Called Youth Cyberpunk trilogy. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award.

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