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MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law

January 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM

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Heather, Dice Goblin

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And here's yet another reason why it's a bad idea to let AI do your work for you. Even just part of it.

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By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

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December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM

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Happy Second Day of 2026 to all who celebrate! Here's "First Sunday Home," by @chriscottom.bsky.social. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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First Sunday Home

by Chris Cottom As the motorcar crunches across the driveway of Tauntfield House, my sister, Edith, explains that the maids and our few remaining male servants are lined up on the left, with our paren...

Word for Word, Featuring Special Guest Paul Tremblay, 12/10/25

January 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM

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Just in time to ring out the old and ring in the new, here's @paultremblay.bsky.social from our recent Word for Word. Enjoy! #writing #horror www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Crx...

Wireside Chat, Featuring Special Guest Alex DiFrancesco, 12/8/25

December 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM

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Here's December's Wireside Chat, featuring instructor Alex DiFrancesco. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtmM...

by Nolo Segundo My wife and I went to say hello to her mother and put flowers on her grave and as it was such a vivid day shining like life’s most poignant dream (youknow, that feeling you only get...

December 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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Happy Monday! Here's "Babyland," by Nolo Segundo. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry. penmenreview.com/babyland/

Babyland

Word for Word, Instructor Spotlight, Featuring Special Guests Tracy Crow and Dan Gleason, 11/19/25

December 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM

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Here's November's Word for Word, our annual instructor spotlight, this year featuring Dan Gleason and @tracycrow.bsky.social reading from their work and sharing their writing journeys. Check it out!
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Instructor Spotlight: Dan Gleason and Tracy Crow

December 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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Check it out! The edited transcript of last month's Word for Word instructor spotlight featuring writer/instructors Dan Gleason and @tracycrow.bsky.social! Enjoy! #litmag
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Each year, Southern New Hampshire University’s (SNHU) Word for Word Literary Series dedicates an event to instructors from its online creative writing programs. This year, on Wednesday, November 19, t...

by Caitlyn Burry “How to Eat a Pomegranate’” placed first in Southern New Hampshire University’s 2025 Fall Fiction Contest. Red things stain quickly; remember to handle them with care. STEP 1: Select ...

December 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM

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Continuing to spotlight the winners of the 11th annual Penmen Review Fall Fiction contest! Here's our first-place winner, "How to Eat a Pomegranate," by Caitlyn Burry. Congrats, Caitlyn! #litmag #shortstory
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How to Eat a Pomegranate

by Jacqueline Coleman “The Hope Index” placed second in Southern New Hampshire University’s 2025 Fall Fiction Contest. My manager says hospitals smell like hope— it’s better branding than what they ac...

December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Congrats to Online MFA student Jacqueline Coleman!

Penmen Review @penmenreviewsnhu.bsky.social · 18d

Spotlighting the winners of the 11th annual Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest! Here's the second-place winner, "The Hope Index," by Jacqueline Coleman. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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The Hope Index

by Jess Prosser “Home Base” placed third in Southern New Hampshire University’s 2025 Fall Fiction Contest. You live in a small two-bedroom house, that is more like a big shack with walls that make you...

December 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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Congrats to Online MFA writer Jess Prosser for placing thrid in the annual Penmen Review Fall Fiction contest. Woot!

Penmen Review @penmenreviewsnhu.bsky.social · 19d

Spotlighting the winners of the Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest! Our third-place winner, "Home Base," by Jess Prosser. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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Home Base

by Andrea Lisowski “Stone Teeth” placed fourth in Southern New Hampshire University’s 2025 Fall Fiction Contest. Half a mile behind the Cathedral of St. Casimir, there’s a sad excuse for a waterfall. ...

December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM

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Penmen Review

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Spotlighting the winners of the Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest! Our fourth-place winner, "Stone Teeth," by Andrea Lisowski. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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Stone Teeth

by Ryan Fagan “The Replacement Shift” placed fifth in Southern New Hampshire University’s 2025 Fall Fiction Contest. I clock in at 6:02 p.m., and the scanner greets me like a metronome. Beep. Beep. Be...

December 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM

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Hey, hey, new release from Online MFA instructor @joechianakas.bsky.social! Congrats, Joe!

Joe Chianakas @joechianakas.bsky.social · 21d

🎧 IT’S RELEASE DAY! 🎉 PRIDE AND PERSISTENCE is officially on AUDIO!

If you love…
💥 queer YA with big emotions
🥋 martial arts + found family
💛 identity, resilience, and real-life bravery

➡️ Grab the audiobook today

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#audiobooks #lgbtreads #YAbooks #newrelease

Cover of Pride and Persistence audiobook by Joe Chianakas

December 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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Penmen Review

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Spotlighting our Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest winners! First up, the fifth-place winner, "The Replacement Shift," by Ryan Fagan. #litmag #shortstory
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The Replacement Shift

The Penmen Review is Southern New Hampshire University’s online journal for creative writers, featuring resource articles, spotlight interviews and writing in all genres, selected by our editorial boa...

December 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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Congrats to all the winners, especially Online MFA students Jacqueline Coleman and Jess Prosser!

Penmen Review @penmenreviewsnhu.bsky.social · 22d

Announcing the winners of the 11th annual Penmen Review Fall Fiction Contest! Woot!

First place: Caitlyn Burry
Second place: Jacqueline Coleman
Third place: Jess Prosser
Fourth place: Andrea Lisowski
Fifth place: Ryan Fagan

Congrats to all! Read their prize-winning stories here: penmenreview.com

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Appearing and Disappearing

December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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Penmen Review

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Happy Monday! Here's "Appearing and Disappearing," a personal essay by Charly Murmann. Enjoy! #litmag #personalessay
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by Charly Murmann Did I fall for you? I think I may have loved you. Maybe I did. Or maybe I loved the idea of falling in love with you. I fell in love with you. I loved your name: not common, chosen, ...

I Suspect That Moths and Regret

December 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM

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Happy Thursday! Here's "I Suspect That Moths and Regret," by Rowan Tate. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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by Rowan Tate I Suspect That Moths and Regret share a language no one translates. Grief has poor timing and excellent posture; I am learning to walk without finishing the sentence. I am not who I mean...

Wireside Chat, Featuring Special Guest Cindy Skaggs, 11/10/25

December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM

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Our November Wireside Chat, featuring special guest Cindy Skaggs, is now available for your viewing pleasure!
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by Lucy Carr I dreamt of the red and yellow wool blanket that my wife, Evelyne, brought back from Morocco. She had purchased it in Tangier just before crossing the Straits of Gibraltar by ferry. I rea...

December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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Happy Monday! Here's "A Circle of Solitude," by Lucy Carr. Enjoy! #litmag #shortstory
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A Circle of Solitude

by Jim Tilley We are used to white birches in the forest growing straight and tall, but I passed by one in a yard, bent and twisted, branches curled downward to the ground before rising again, as if i...

December 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM

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Happy Thursday! Here's "Birch and Maple," by Jim Tilley. Enjoy! #litmag #poetry
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Birch and Maple

No Breather in the World But Thee - Nightmare Magazine

December 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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On Wednesday, 12/10, from 8-9 pm EST, Word for Word proudly welcomes horror master @paultremblay.bsky.social! Free and open to the public. Register here:
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Picture of author Paul Tremblay, a black-haired and bearded white man in dark-framed glasses, with the cover of his novel Horror Movie, and the caption: Word for Word Welcomes Paul Tremblay, Wednesday, 12.10, 8pm EST.

December 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM

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In today's Tea with the Dean, we looked at @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's amazing story, "No Breather in the World But Thee." If you don't know it, here's your chance.
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The cook didn’t like that the eyes of the dead fish shifted to stare at him as he cut their heads off. The cook’s assistant, who was also his lover, didn’t like that he woke to find just a sack of blo...

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December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM

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The 5 finalists of the Fall Fiction Contest have been selected by our panel of expert judges. Now it's up to you to vote for the winners! Voting is open until Monday, 12/8, at 11:59 pm EST.
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Gallery View: Fall Fiction Contest - 2025

It is time to vote for your favorite short story in SNHU's 11th annual Fall Fiction Contest. Public voting will be accepted on the five finalists beginning at 9 am EDT on Monday, and closing at 11:59 ...

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December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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Happy Tuesday! Here's "White Picket Fences," by John Neal. Enjoy! penmenreview.com/white-picket... #litmag #shortstory

White Picket Fences

by John Neal “You have such a lovely house,” Meg said. “Is it?” Kate said. The words were out of her mouth before she realized she should have simply said “thank you.” Now Meg was giving her a funny...