Writers Forsaken

by Melissa Kummerow

Which stories will readers buy?

Whose time will readers abide?

AI will produce stories with perfect story formula:

the rise, the fall, the tension placed “just so.”

Characters penned with uncanny precision,

and subplots intricate-woven.

Now Humans’ stories? Maybe not so!

Some are master story-weavers.

But many more may pen

plot-holes and pockmarks,

their tension moments much too long,

maybe a sentence that doesn’t belong…

And so which stories will readers buy?

Whose stories will readers abide?

Error-ridden human scribble,

or an AI literary curation?

Demons are Intelligent, Too.