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The 2026 Hyperstition Unslop AI fiction writing contest is over, and we are pleased to award the $10,000 Grand Prize to A. Best for his finalist submission, “The June”. A surprising number of stories can be read as AI allegories; see notes below. “🤖” = possible AI allegory The finalists were: “The June”🤖, A. Best “Exact Change”, Emma Baker “Capacity”🤖, self_made_human “The Answering Wood”, ctrlcreep “The Tallyman”🤖, Jiaobei Mandos “A Short Week”🤖, D. Bohdan The semifinalists: “The Weight of a Witness”🤖, Jessica Hunt-Yates N/A🤖?, elia.discourse “Untitled”, A. Best “The…

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