SEAL Book Club

[thiskurt]

I'm through it now. Oddly enough I still sound nasally, but I don't have any symptoms anymore.

Question: Do people still feel like keeping this going?

[Bee]

I'm through it now. Oddly enough I still sound nasally, but I don't have any symptoms anymore.

Question: Do people still feel like keeping this going?

I WANT to. I just... Haven't. But that's too be said about pretty much anything in my life right now tbf

Let's talk about last week's pieces tomorrow?

[Bee]

I think a major issue here is that there are only three of us so if anyone misses even just one piece it can discourage everyone else

But I really do want to keep this up if possible

[InspectorCaracal]

I think a major issue here is that there are only three of us so if anyone misses even just one piece it can discourage everyone else

But I really do want to keep this up if possible

yeah I think that's accurate

also I've been having a good chunk of "falling behind" guilt which is what got me kicked out of school lol,,,

[thiskurt]

Ok, let me start off, but I don't have too much to say unfortunately.

But this is an interesting format, different from the other magazines. Most of them are more like dialogues/monologues or fictional articles. I usually do pretty badly with epistolary fiction, but as short fiction it's not too bad.

I only just realised the "phi" in "Sci Phi" here refers to Philosopy, so they'll probably all be like this. (I'm writing this part as I've read only Bentham in Hell)

Bentham in Hell

Not so much a story as a dialogue exploring the implications of morally qualifying something with an ongoing impact like Bentham's Utilitarianism.

I think it would only apply to people who had an influence like this, though, I doubt most people would be continuously shifting from urethral centipedes to pearly gates.

The Baptismal Status Of Persons Wetted By The Sprinkler Deluge

I thought this one is really funny. The power is in the sacrement, the sprinkler incident is clearly a valid baptism and I'll hear nothing against it!

Spin Doctor Of The Self

Uh, ok.

Where The Monster Lurks

Didn't finish this one, kind of zoned out.

Report To The Pro-Aedile Of Excavations

Ok, so it's an alternate history where Christianity didn't take off and this is an account of alt-Rome discovering some documents of it and how they would percieve it, but I don't see what it's trying to do or say with that?

The Time-Traveller’s Lament

You know what the Final Destination franchise needs? Time travel.

This is the most like a normal story and I like it, it's a light, funny read, not too much to say about it, though.

[thiskurt]

Ok, well, I'm going to loop back around to the first magazine we did, Uncanny Magazine, so we have three stories and three poems:

Short Stories (10.608 words total):

1. Ribbons by Natalia Theodoridou
Wordcount: 4236
Link: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/ribbons/

2. The Clockwork Penguin Dreamed of Stars by Caroline M. Yoachim
Wordcount: 3487
Link: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/the ... -of-stars/

3. The Calcified Heart of Saint Ignace Battiste by Christopher Caldwell
Wordcount: 2885
Link: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/the ... -battiste/

Poems (886 words total):

1. Crustacean on Land by Mehnaz Sahibzada
Wordcount: 385
Link: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/crustacean-on-land/

2. The House Snakes by Sonya Taaffe
Wordcount: 150
Link: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/the-house-snakes/

3. Weaver Girl Dream by Lisabelle Tay
Wordcount: 351
Link: https://uncannymagazine.com/article/weaver-girl-dream/

[Bee]

THREE POEMS

[thiskurt]

THREE POEMS

That's right. We're going to be starting SEAP soon.

[Bee]

Let’s do this folks

[Bee]

I’ve actually already read the poems but they were so confusing I’ll just read them again a couple more times before deciding whether to give up on understanding them