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Not Not Truth

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for Reena’s Xploration Challenge.
Our focus is on ‘fiction’ as Reena asks:
What constitutes fiction in the post-
truth era? How thin or distinct are
the lines between fact and fiction?

Image by Me & Gemini

So this influencer swears the earth is flat ….
her source? A guy who “used to work at NASA.”
She’s not lying …. she’s “asking questions,” and that
is legally distinct from being a liar.

Meanwhile my group chat forwards a screenshot
of a tweet from an account that isn’t real,
quoting a senator who never said that thing,
but hey, it feels true, and feelings are the deal.

The credits say “this is a work of fiction,”
right after sixty minutes of “True Crime.”
And AI says “I might be wrong, my friend,”
then makes up a guy’s name, age, and birth sign .

So what’s fiction now? Not the thing that’s fake;
it’s the thing polite enough to admit the con.
Everything else just skips that step and says
“trust me” …. and somehow we all keep going on.

NAR©2026

This is “Gimme Some Truth” by John Lennon

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #445

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17 thoughts on “Not Not Truth”

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  7. I had a supervisor who always said, “Trust me…” and would then blather on. Finally one day I told her, you know as soon as you say that, you’ve lost me. The rest of my department laughed and nodded in agreement. Supervisor didn’t get it. I had to tune out the blather. Ridiculous nonsense.

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