The Commonwealth Short Story Prize (which is decently prestigious) was won by a story called The Serpent in the Grove.
The story seems to have prizes for different regions, and this is the winning entry for the Caribbean region.
I just read a few paragraphs, and this story’s prose is very AI-coded.
“The day the grove began to remember”
I’ve heard AI talk about a forest “remembering” at least once before. I think in the flavor text of an AI-generated trading card.
“No fan, no bulb, no hum – only the thin light slipping between warped boards...”
″...breath of hills holding their heat like a secret.”
I have also heard “like a secret” in AI prose before.
The story is very boring and pretentious. I gave up reading it. I wonder how many entries will be written by AI next year.
I am no Slop Nazi, but using “not X, but Y” and the em-dash literally in the first paraphraph...
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize (which is decently prestigious) was won by a story called The Serpent in the Grove.
The story seems to have prizes for different regions, and this is the winning entry for the Caribbean region.
I just read a few paragraphs, and this story’s prose is very AI-coded.
“The day the grove began to remember”
I’ve heard AI talk about a forest “remembering” at least once before. I think in the flavor text of an AI-generated trading card.
“No fan, no bulb, no hum – only the thin light slipping between warped boards...”
″...breath of hills holding their heat like a secret.”
I have also heard “like a secret” in AI prose before.
The story is very boring and pretentious. I gave up reading it. I wonder how many entries will be written by AI next year.
I am no Slop Nazi, but using “not X, but Y” and the em-dash literally in the first paraphraph...