New Short Fiction: “If Alton Park Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats”

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Up now on Just Keep Up Magazine is my latest piece, “If Alton Park Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats.”

This one is a lovely bit of near-future paranoia about AI, creativity, and the urgent need to keep some things safe and separate from the all-devouring maw of the collective regurgitation machine. It’s called “If Alton Park Was A Gunslinger, There’d Be A Whole Lot Of Dead Copycats”, which of course is a spin on something nice Mingus once said of The Bird. Also as I read through it again I realize I put one of you in as a background character.

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