A lthough I teach and edit fiction, I still didn’t think it would ever happen—that an AI-generated or AI-assisted short story would win a major contest. Then came Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove,” a regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, published on Granta magazine’s website. The story exhibits all the common AI-writing “tells” familiar to anyone who has ever scrolled through a restaurant’s Instagram feed. Em dashes, the word hums (in the first sentence), contrasts (“It’

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