In fall of 2019 I wrote a short story that was rejected by a lot of publications for good reason. (It was structured as a JSON object. Treacherous for any sane person to read and infer the story).

After my nth rejection I reconfigured it as an experiment of tweets that play automatically, in real-time, across 25 hours, on an account dedicated to it, once a year. A week after it plays out, I will delete the tweets, and the account goes dormant again until the next year.

The story is called “Warm Winds May Come” and is an update of the Bradbury classic “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Refresher:

https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

Both stories begin on 04 Aug. The narrator of the story is the narrow #AI that runs a rich person’s house. The tweets go out to the long-dead owner.

In a few hours the first inaugural playback of that story will happen. It’s built on a creaky connection of @Zapier to @googlecalendar to @Twitter. I actually have no idea if it will work. But I think it will. I hope it will.

If you’re interested in reading the experimental story, keep an eye on the account: https://twitter.com/warmwinds2026  And let me know what you think.