within the constellations of lies that surround us, there is a single pair of twins that draws our focus today: the gemini of forgery and plagiarism. while plagiarism is taking someone else's work and claiming it as one's own, forgery is the opposite: one's own production claimed to be someone else's.

ultimately, everything in society is built on trust at some fundamental level, simply because it is impossible to verify everything. As ken thompson wrote in his "reflections on trusting trust" (1984) essay, the world exists in a web of trust, and if that trust is violated at a core level, it may be impossible to discover as much.

1. intro to gemini: forgery and plagiarism
2. literature and forged roots
3. large language models and the plagiarism machine
4. the cult of the singular artistic genius
5. tbd

ari rides bikes around dc and nyc. with a background in nuclear engineering and computer programming, he provides the computational and technological perspective for the magainze.

d. t. moynihan lives and works in washington, dc. find short fiction in glass mountain and prompt literary magazine, or get in touch at .

eleni comes with extensive experience in art criticism, oil paintings, and ceramics. after living in france for five years, she relocated to nyc to pursue her dream of having a 45-minute commute. eleni speaks english, french, arabic, and greek. her research outside of the magazine focuses on middle east history, african art repatriation, and french monarchism.