The Slush Pile

Pen-and-ink illustration: the Lemondrilla gorilla buried in an avalanche of manuscripts, stamping furiously with a rubber stamp in each fist while a golden manuscript glows unnoticed under the desk
AI-generated illustration

Every magazine has one: the slush pile, where unsolicited manuscripts go to wait, and wait, and mostly die. Today it is yours. Read fast. Judge faster. Nobody will ever know how many masterpieces you stamped NO.

You are the editor now.

Sixty seconds. One slush pile. Stamp every manuscript YES or NO: buttons, arrow keys (← NO, → YES) or swipe. At the end we compare you with the real editors who read the Lemondrilla, live from the NO-meter.