🪵 Getting Started with Snark Floats

Welcome, brave wanderer.

You’ve just entered a space where essays and fiction bite. Sometimes they nibble. Sometimes they leave scars. Depends on the day. And my mood.

If you’re into cute vibes, soft opinions, or bland bloggy takes — this is probably not for you.
If you like sharp stories, bold essays, and the occasional cursed fox?
You might’ve just found home.

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💡 What You’ll Find Here

• Essays on cultural decay, modern dysfunction, and why “just be yourself” should be enough

• Fiction with teeth: haunted tech, corporate demons, emotional sabotage, and cursed chin hairs, that sort of thing

• Serials, like The Devil and Edith Olsen, where a literal demon is slowly being spiritually colonized by the ghost of a Midwestern church lady

• Fox Story Anthology, a loosely linked set of surreal, haunting tales orbiting a white fox. It’s a mythos of grief, memory, and the uncanny.

It’s not cute.
It’s not soothing.
But it is sharp, weird, and occasionally devastating in the best way.

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📚 Where should you start?

That depends on you. What are you craving?

🧠 Essays that ruminate and occasionally bite

• Integrity Is a Quiet Revolution: Because honor matters, someone had to say it, and I wasn’t in the mood to be nice about it.

• Welcome to the Burnout Economy: The only corporate loyalty left is to your own damn sanity. How corporate America forgot that humans aren’t disposable...

• What Ever Happened to Just Being Yourself?: Social media promised connection, but rewards performance. We thought being real was enough — until we watched the numbers.

• 👉 See all the essays I ever wrote (on Substack)

😈 Fiction that leans to the dark and snarky

• The Hollowing: It started small — a dinner I couldn’t remember, a name I’d misplaced. But I know something inside me is eating everything I am.

• Rapunzel, Reimagined for the Middle-Aged Woman: When tweezers fail and exorcists flee, there's only one option left. Rapunzel's not cursed. She's done.

• The Watcher: An AI bears witness to society’s slow-motion collapse, cataloging our rise, fall, and reality TV obsession with clinical detachment… and something dangerously close to feeling.

• 👉 Check out all my fiction

🦊 Quiet hauntings and softer thoughts

• The Fox in the Yard – A soft story with sharp teeth about a white fox. This is the first in an anthology of short stories about the fox.

• Shared Threads: A Digital Haunting – When a group chat outlives one of its members, strange things can happen. A modern haunting in pings, silence, and love that never logged off.

• Night Patrol: When the sea goes quiet, an elder dragon knows trouble is near. One night patrol leads to music, mentorship, and the beginning of two voices instead of one.

• 👉 Read more about the creepy white fox

🥣 Snarky Serial(s)

There’s just the one for now, but I have another in the works, and who knows what happens after that?

• The Devil and Edith Olsen: Part 1: Take one snarky demon. Add the ghost of a midwestern church lady. Result? A very unproductive day in Hell.

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💌 Subscription Options: Pick Your Poison

Real talk? There’s a lot going on here. And you don’t have to get all of it in your inbox. Substack lets you choose which sections you’re subscribed to.

👉 Manage your preferences here.

• Like essays but hate demons? Fine. Weirdo.

• Love weird fiction but allergic to real-world opinions? Also fine. Still weird.

• Want the whole chaos buffet? Sit back and let it all roll in.

Control what you get. When you get it.
You’re driving the hearse now.

However you float, I’m glad you’re here.

Now go read something sharp enough to leave a mark.

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👋 Final Notes

Thanks again for joining Snark Floats. That makes you cooler than at least 80% of the internet.
If you like what you read, share the word with someone who’ll get it.

I’m glad you’re here. And always feel free to reach out in chat if you have questions or suggestions!

Thanks for floating by.
—Jenifer (the chaos bard behind the curtain)