Writing Without Rules: From the Notebook

Writing Without Rules: From the Notebook

The Devil’s In

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Jeff Somers
Feb 01, 2026
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This was written in 2000. In 2008, I submitted it to zap!, an amatuer press association (APA) dedicated to the old alt.zines newsgroup. After that I frankly lose the thread—I’m not even sure if it ever published there. The version I sent to zap! had some funny doodles and margin notes slapped onto it to give it a little metafictional shmear, but reviewi…

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